I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was … - Ridley Scott

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Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

Ridley Scott

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

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I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

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I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.

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I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

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Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

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There's a little thing on your shoulder called intuition and it whispers in your ear. Everyone has that, there is a voice telling you to do something. Most people ignore it - but you must listen to it. I do it every day, all day.

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What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer. ” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the pit, wanton limbs steaming from the fleshpots of Hades, in tortured and lubricious thrall to your Stygian and hellish masters?” “That’s Pulsifer,” explained Newton. “With a P. I don’t know about the other stuff, but we come from Surrey. ” The voice on the phone sounded vaguely disappointed.

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Hermann Weyl

The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. . . . In this very radical sense, quantum physics supports the doctrine that the whole is more than the combination of its parts.

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Natasha Gregson Wagner

I was always attracted to characters that were in some level of turmoil or suffering because I had so much of that in my own life and I wanted to channel it. I was always into darker things.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

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Benjamin Disraeli

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

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