Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
To me, 'director's cut' means that what was released before was somebody else's cut. That, to me, always implies that what was released wasn't what the director wanted.
Quotes to Explore
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
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I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
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When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.
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Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.
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When a fact begins to resemble whatever you feel is true, it becomes very difficult for anyone to tell the difference between facts that are true and 'facts' that are not.
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To me, 'director's cut' means that what was released before was somebody else's cut. That, to me, always implies that what was released wasn't what the director wanted.
