Gavin Hood Quotes

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

Gavin Hood

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I'm done with 'Biggest Loser.'

Jillian Michaels

LoserDoneBiggest

In South Africa, we drive on the left-hand side, and most of the cars are standard, so I learned with a full-gear transmission with a clutch and hill starts. I've never driven an automatic until I came to Canada.

Jodi Balfour

DriveCanadaHillAfricaNeverSide

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Andy Williams

IntegrityFaithHonestyChildren

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.

John T. Chambers

BusinessPastCustomerProductLine

A writer cannot be judged for his project, only its execution.

Rumaan Alam

ExecutionProjectCannotOnlyWriter

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Mickey Mantle

HomeHabitMeEnoughBadDown

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Judy Blume

GoodPeopleAlwaysWriter

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

Colum McCann

ImaginationPeopleMeThinkFiction

Oh, I'm a Mopar guy. There's no doubt about it.

William Fichtner

DoubtGuyNo DoubtOhAbout

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.

Pierce Brosnan

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When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

Noel Gallagher

PeopleEggYouCowGoldenWhatever

I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.

Martin Chalfie

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