Neil MacGregor Quotes

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

Neil MacGregor

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A lot of directors don't really like actors.

Joe Wright

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America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.

Michael Finkel

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Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

Amy Heckerling

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We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

Michael Mosley

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People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.

Jason Statham

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A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

Derek Fisher

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

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What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.

Cory Booker

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I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.

Brett Gelman

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When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

Brett Ratner

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If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

Arthur Boyd

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