Richard Attenborough Quotes

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

Richard Attenborough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 29, 1923 - August 24, 2014

Topics

FreedomStand UpCareStandEasyUp

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

John Hughes

MusicQualityJudgeRepeatArtists

In the past, I never wrote any love songs. That was not my thing.

St. Lucia

LovePastNeverIn The PastSongs

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

Simon Cowell

MusicCircleGoThingsMostFull

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

PoliticsI Have LearnedSaidFirst

Nick Hornby's a genius.

Lisa Jewell

GeniusNick

I've always said that music is like literature.

Jose Carreras

MusicLiteratureSaidAlwaysLike

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

Dimebag Darrell

StartPlayLivingBandUsedBeen

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

AloneTogetherBeing AlonePeople

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

Arnon Goldfinger

LifeHistoryWarPeopleThinkLook

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

Alice McDermott

CharacterEyesServiceYourselfYou

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Thomas Szasz

NaturePurposeNameMental Illness

When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace.

Tim Pigott-Smith

PeaceWarWinningProblemYouWon

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