- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Reaction
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like helping other writers who don't know what to do or where to go in New York.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made up.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New York, but I was only here for two months. My parents are German, and I grew up in Germany for my first 10 years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
What many of us object to is the politicians who, for whatever reason, forget that societies cannot easily absorb huge numbers of new citizens. I resent the suggestion that this perfectly reasonable view is motivated by racial hatred or personal spite.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scene we shot with Charlie Rose was actually the last piece that was ever shot for 'Breaking Bad.' My daughter and I flew to New York; we got to shoot in the 'Charlie Rose' studio. Adam Godley and Jessica Hecht are such expert performers that we were able to get it very beautifully and very quickly.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020