Simon Beaufoy Quotes

I think you are doing a disservice to a novel just by transposing it wholesale onto the screen, because it doesn't work. They are completely different beasts.

Simon Beaufoy

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I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

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What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience.

John Hillcoat

TechnologyExperienceMeIdeasGames

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

Amitabh Bachchan

WorkSucceedAchieveAudienceDecide

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Tom Stoppard

PeopleMotivationMysteriousCall

My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.

Rob Manuel

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I've been in 30 car crashes, none of 'em my fault, I swear on a stack of midgets... OK, they were probably all my fault.

Roddy Piper

CarFaultBeenNoneOKSwear

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

Ruth Ware

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Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch.

Jonathan Zittrain

TodayPotentialApplePhoneChoice

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Donna Leon

MilitaryAlwaysAntagonismHad

I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.

Chris Benz

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If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.

Ciara

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