Richard Attenborough Quotes

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Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough

Birthname

AKA Richard Attenborough

Birthday August 29, 1923

Birthplace Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Death August 24, 2014

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Educated At Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art

Political Parties Labour Party

Nationality United Kingdom

Occupations Film Actor, University Teacher, Stage Actor, Film Director, Film Producer

Spouse Sheila Sim

Characters Portrayed

John Hammond

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We've made living biological attractions so astounding that they'll capture the imagination of the entire planet.

— John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), Jurassic Park

Imagination biological attractions

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[walking into the Visitor's Centre for the first time] The most advanced amusement park in the entire world. And I'm not just talking about rides, you know? Everybody has rides. No, we have made living biological attractions so astounding, that they'll capture the imaginations of the entire planet.

— John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), Jurassic Park

Amusement Park Rides biological attractions

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John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked!

Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.

— John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), Jurassic Park

Disneyland 1956 Pirates of the Caribbean tourists

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John Hammond: When we have control again..

Dr. Ellie Sattler: You never had control, that's the illusion! I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I made a mistake, too, I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now. The only thing that matters now are the people we love. Alan and Lex and Tim. John, they're out there where people are dying.

— John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), Jurassic Park

Control Illusion

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You know the first attraction I ever built when I came down south from Scotland? It was a Flea Circus, Petticoat Lane. Really quite wonderful. We had a wee trapeze, and a merry-go... carousel and a seesaw. They all moved, motorized of course, but people would say they could see the fleas. 'Oh, I see the fleas, mummy! Can't you see the fleas?' Clown fleas and high wire fleas and fleas on parade... But with this place, I wanted to show them something that wasn't an illusion. Something that was real, something that they could see and touch. An aim not devoid of merit.

— John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), Jurassic Park

flea circus petticoat lane carousel seesaw merry-go-round scotland fleas

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— Albert Einstein, via Wikiquote

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We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

— John Gardner, On Becoming A Novelist

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Imagining something is better than remembering something.

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Everybody has a secret world inside of them… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

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My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.

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Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

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My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination.

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The analytical brain can kill you as an artist.

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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

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The first time, he had wondered why she liked books so much, and if it had anything to do with why he liked spaceships. Because they could take you somewhere far, far away.

— Marissa Meyer, Stars Above

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