Ridley Scott Quotes

As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget.

Ridley Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 30, 1937

Topics

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It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Maya Lin

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Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

John McWhorter

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

John Henry Newman

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I got rid of all of my non-stick pots and pans, anything that had a kind of toxic surface in terms of cooking.

Anna Getty

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Award ceremonies are strange because you're sitting next to someone you've never met; you're celebrating with a total stranger.

Aneurin Barnard

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I would never suggest that the geography or visual environment of the film is more important than what's going on with the people, but it's a major factor in getting the right tone. Certainly, it influences the actors tremendously.

Michael Cimino

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I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

Amy Grant

MusicTimeFeelYouOverYears

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

Simon Mawer

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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

Mary-Louise Parker

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People have always challenged me. People told me I was going to get this big beer belly when I got done playing. But I work out six days a week, and when I turn 40, I'm going to still have that six pack.

Donald Driver

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In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.

Colson Whitehead

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