Nigel Kneale Quotes

#1. History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Cotton Mather

#2. Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

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#3. Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Olivia Wilde

#4. Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

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#5. I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

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#6. What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?

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#7. I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

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#8. I can bring Rain with me everywhere I go, but when she's in school, I don't know what I'll do. The longest I've been away from her is three days, and I cried my eyes out. The first day of school will be so hard.

Marisol Nichols

#9. I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad.

Carmen Kass

#10. The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

#11. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

#12. The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

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#13. People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

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#14. I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

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#15. You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

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#16. Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

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#17. All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

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#18. The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

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#19. I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

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#20. You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

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#21. I never had a career. Only work.

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#22. The ideal is within you, and the obstacle to reaching this ideal is also within you. You already possess all the material from which to create your ideal self. - THOMAS CARLYLE

Leo Tolstoy

#23. I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

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#24. While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the library getting smarter or at the office getting better (or with their family growing kinder). Make this day count.

Robin Sharma

#25. But the basic premise of Eutropianism is that technology has made us post-human. That Homo sapiens plus technology is effectively a whole new species: immortal, omnipresent because of the Net, and headed towards omnipotence.

Neal Stephenson

#26. When you're really young, you're young for life.

Pablo Picasso

#27. I am not concerned with verisimilitude ... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.

Tracey Moffatt

#28. I have everything that I would possibly imagine. I have a family that loves me and that's ... more than most kids have. And it's really awesome for me to experience this life ... because most kids don't have this life, and I'm trying to reach out to them and help them.

Willow Smith

#29. I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

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#30. A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. How can you be afraid of women?" "Those ain't normal women.

Dave Barry

#32. I'd never seen any television before I started.

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