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Richard Stanley Quotes

Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.'

Richard Stanley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: south african
Birth: November 22, 1966

Topics

Me Island Question Ask Over Years

All early entrepreneurs fall prey to the same problem, which is everyone believes that if you are super intense in the beginning, work long hours, that you can create something quickly and that entrepreneurship is almost something that happens overnight.

Work Beginning Problem You Early

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.

Age Saying Think Long Understand

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

Person Independent Point Once

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Writing More Hidden Cancer Big Idea

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

Life Romantic Losing Writing Start

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Day Environmental Energy Earth Some

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

Beauty Power Woman Youth Always

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

Learning Good School Child World

The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.

Spring True Inspired Saw Been

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Knowledge Search Differences Human

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

Fear Courage Imagination Me Fearless

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Leadership City Destiny Strong Will

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