David Leitch Quotes

Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.

David Leitch

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CharacterGreatWalkLuckChance

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.

Ananda Krishnan

YouImportantRelationshipsPersonal

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

Ruth First

LawEarlyWriteStudyPolicySet

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Louis L'Amour

HistoryTimeWorldLimitFiction

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

Jose Marti

LifeLife Is ARightGiveOnly

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Jonny Lee Miller

LiveHumorSimpleNew YorkAmerica

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

Don Rickles

KingPeopleMeCell PhoneSaying

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.

Christopher Dawson

LoyaltySpiritualSocietyRecognition

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.

Broderick Crawford

YouCallDeathbedCatholic

Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

Annie Jacobsen

GovernmentWritingEyeSkiesBeen

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.

Philip Schultz

MemorableKindWriteBigStories

If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye.

Priyamvada Natarajan

WorkPathLightEyeYouLens

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Mark Twain

LieBetterYouBelongTakeThan

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