Maggie Smith There’s this wonderful first assistant and he’ll be saying, ‘Now Harry goes down among the dragons.’ You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you’re sunk. – Maggie Smith Assistant Quotes Dragons Quotes Harry Quotes Hold Quotes Lose Quotes Sunk Quotes Wonderful Quotes People say it gets better but it doesn’t. It just gets different, that’s all. I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
David Crystal Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are the three mediums through which a language is passed on from one generation to the next. – David Crystal
Simon Conway Morris As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything. – Simon Conway Morris
Marianne Jean-Baptiste There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word ‘diversity’ a lot, but when I say ‘of colour,’ I mean Asian, black – I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad. – Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Ken Liu I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general. – Ken Liu
Sean Parker My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, ‘Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.’ – Sean Parker
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