Michael Apted, who directed The World Is Not Enough, has watched as the Bond character has evolved for different audiences over the years.
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British-born Apted, 59, has had an uneven career in commercial films over the years, including 1988's Gorillas in the Mistand last year's Bond thriller, The World Is Not Enough.
Richards played James Bond's love interest Dr Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough, and has also appeared in the films Wild Things, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Scary Movie 3.
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Istanbul was visited by Bond in From Russia With Love, The World is Not Enough, and will be thrust into the spotlight when it hosts perhaps the most famous moment in any Bond film, the opening action sequence, for Skyfall.
Still, the author, a beleaguered dad whose daily child-negotiation obligations make my own life look like a walk in the park, says that all the good advice from experts in the world is not good enough to stop him, his wife, and their friends from resorting to bribery.
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Now the cold war is over the old world has not changed quickly enough.
Singapore, for instance, is a bit of the East that is rich enough to be in the first world but does not want to be part of the West.
Like most of the socialist world, it is not creating enough jobs to absorb this new wave of 20-somethings.
However, in many parts of the world, water is not always clean enough for safe human use, or for sustaining healthy ecosystems.
The second is a developing world problem, the challenge all youth face finding work in a society that is not industrializing fast enough.
The state - which saved the free market in 2008 - is simply not strong enough in some parts of the world to take the strain.
In most parts of the world the surface of the sea is not warm enough for hurricanes to form.
The cartel has not invested enough to keep pace with demand growth, so the world is virtually out of spare capacity.
There is just not enough gold in the world to be used as a value backed money medium.
At the ceremony for the World Press Freedom Prize, the Director-General pointed out, however, that freedom of information is not enough.
This amount of money is not enough to solve all of the world's problems, but it is an enormous sum, larger than the current endowment of the Gates Foundation.
The story of how Mr Markopolos discovered the world's largest Ponzi scheme is interesting enough, but the real meat of his account concerns the investigations that did not happen.
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She is currently training in Cuba, and while she is not throwing far enough to be among the world's best, the Sri Lankan athletics authority believe that the experience she will gain from competing in Beijing will be of great benefit to her in regional events in the near future and in the long term.
There is not enough money to be given away in the world to make the poor well off.
There is not enough skilled labour and fancy equipment in the world, he believes, to ramp up production as quickly as people hope.
As with most things in the corporate world, there is too much process built upon theory and not nearly enough practice built on experience.
My rebuttal to this is that in the real world, individuals do not choose egregiously terrible sacrifices of freedom enough that this a actually a problem.
The quality and style of play by the average MLS player is simply not good enough to gain a position as USMNT World Cup regular, let alone a starter.
It is this pursuit of world standards, not merely those good enough for the cosy local market, that sets Reliance apart from the flaccid family empires that still dominate Indian business.
Yet some say he has not done enough to confront the evils of the world, when the Church itself is at fault.
And it is burdened by losses that leave it short of capital (although the world has capital, not enough has been available to the banks).
Given all the problems that there are in the world, I have not been very concerned about private schools not charging enough, but it is good to know there is somebody paying attention.
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The U.S. corporation tax is already the highest in the world and rich Americans are subject to high marginal tax rates, though not high enough to satisfy Sachs.
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