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Ridley Scott Quotes

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Me Make Other Films

Live TV, which is happening as you see it, is very exciting to do. Any mistake is seen by millions, and if there is a technical breakdown, one has to ad lib or improvise like mad.

Live Mistake You Mad See Seen

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.

Home Opportunity School New York You

Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?

John Cameron Mitchell

Funny Why Tennis Bracelet Seem Very

A true democracy starts by separating state and bad science.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Science Democracy Bad True Starts

I hadn't meant to do the pattern of publishing short stories and then a novel. I thought, 'I'm a novelist. I know it.' But you have to kind of write a lot of bad novels before you can write a good one, I think, so I did that. But meanwhile, I loved the short stories I did.

Andrew Sean Greer

Good Think Thought Loved Short You

I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.

Work Think You Fast New Kind

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

Best Strong You Country Go Know

I didn't say Facebook could not enter China, but nor did I say that it could.

Say China Facebook Did Enter Nor

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

Louis Farrakhan

Fight Brother People Thought Loved

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

Jonny Lee Miller

Myself Seriously Never Taken Too

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.

Mother Daughter Job Think Better

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Freedom Man Believe Decisions Choice

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