Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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Security is a complicated idea and one with an immense potential to trap us - that was one lesson I learnt from my father.

John Lanchester

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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

John le Carre

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Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there.

Michael J. Saylor

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Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

Shinichi Suzuki

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I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Tony Kushner

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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

Rita Rudner

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As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.

Robert Winston

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I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.

Mary Gauthier

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You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.

Mike White

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I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Michael Specter

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.

Derek Blasberg

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