841 Quotes About Absolute

  • Author Simon Schama
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    I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.

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  • Author Steve Savard
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    It's been a roller-coaster ride. I feel a tremendous amount of grief right now. I've lost not only a partner but somebody who was fiercely loyal and an absolute joy to be around. It's been a rough week, but it pales in comparison with what the family has been through.

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  • Author Steven Spielberg
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    My film refuses to be a pamphlet. My screenwriter, Tony Kushner, and I were hoping to make it a visceral, emotional and intellectual experience, combined in such a way that it will help you get in touch with what you feel are the questions the film poses. The most important thing about peace in the Middle East is that people surrender their absolute certainty about what's going on.

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  • Author Stuart Sternberg
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    These are people who are going to have a big impact on the success of the organization. Timing is not as important as getting the absolute right people in.

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  • Author Ted Shaw
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    I think you're going to have other confusion from all of us. Many of us, we've been going to the same pharmacy for 30 years. I'm disappointed that we couldn't have had an absolute simple plan rather than this confusing thing.

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  • Author Ted Sarandos
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    What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.

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  • Author Thomas Schlamme
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    'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.

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  • Author Timothy Simons
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    I think the absolute worst job I ever had - not because it was a terrible job, just because I was just so bad at it - was when I worked at a scenic factory in Chicago.

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  • Author Tom Stoppard
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    I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

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