"How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?"

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Source : "Q&A: Trevor McDonald". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2011.

Trevor McDonald

#Knowing Quotes #Names Quotes #Feet Quotes

“You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's too different of a credit. That credit is usually given to the executive producer. It's not the producer.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.”
“I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.”
“Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.”
“I'm actively looking at pilots in the very limited pilot season that is about to begin. Lots of work for my clothing line which is extremely exciting.”
“The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.”
“We will die, but art will remain.”
“I am still alive then. That may come in useful.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.236, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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