I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.
Lou Reed
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.
Jim Crace
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'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.
Joe Wright
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You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
Michael Gambon
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There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
Russell Smith
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I can't recall a bad review - maybe I'm due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible. Reach your audience's ears - only then can you reach their hearts.
Miriam Margolyes
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People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.
Louis Theroux
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Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.
Lloyd Kaufman
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All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.
DJ Khaled
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The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
Bradley A. Blakeman
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The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.
Brie Larson
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Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.
Nigel Kneale
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I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.
Richard Flanagan
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