Giles Foden Quotes

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

Giles Foden

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It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

Jesse Plemons

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Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

Robert Gottlieb

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Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.

Steve Zahn

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For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're writing a comic book, you're really only talking to the artist.

Travis Beacham

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I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

Rose McIver

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At 19, you're not really thinking about the habits you have. I wasn't. Maybe your study habits? But not your life habits.

Brendon Burchard

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People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Bruce Campbell

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The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

Arthur Smith

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At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Scott Ian

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On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

Timothy Noah

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I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

Noah Hathaway

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