Paul Greengrass Quotes

It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there's a lot of it that's about escaping from life.

Paul Greengrass

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LifeMoviesCircusAntisocialHours

I tend to read mostly 20th-century fiction, 20th-, 21st-century fiction in Italian.

Jhumpa Lahiri

FictionReadItalianTendMostly

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

Tom Paulin

BeginningRacismChallengesFree

I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

Ronda Rousey

MoneyThinkOutsidePoliticiansTake

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Luis Walter Alvarez

CollegeMeSisterGameThoughtSay

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Jean Cocteau

SocietyFreeTryingYouTryFirst

In L.A., my house is surrounded by churches, and there are no cars, so it's really nice to just walk around before I go home to check my emails from Spain, which have been coming in all night.

Jordi Molla

HomeWalkNightHouseGoNice

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

David Zayas

WorkJobOpinionUnderstandActor

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

Christien Meindertsma

PeopleEndPigWayFarmersUp

I'm not lost, they just moved my street.

Piper Perabo

LostStreetJustMoved

We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.

Philip Yancey

StarsTodayCultureWoodsTigerNew

There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.

Petula Clark

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The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

Sharan Burrow

WorkScienceGreenEconomicsEconomy

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