David Puttnam Quotes

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

David Puttnam

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: producer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 25, 1941

Topics

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If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

Melanie Lynskey

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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

Matthew McConaughey

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The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.

Jeff Nichols

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Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Amy Alcott

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I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

Robbie Keane

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All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

Michele Bachmann

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On '50/50,' even though it was 8 million dollars, it was all acting-intensive.

Jonathan Levine

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I go out there to steal the show every night.

Dolph Ziggler

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We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It's a tough grind that you have to go through that people don't understand.

Chauncey Billups

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The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to protect this country from a terror threat and to protect others from the terror threat that was Saddam Hussein. And nobody can deny that we are in a better place because Saddam Hussein is dead.

Cory Gardner

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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Clifford Geertz

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Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

Brian Stableford

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