Randee Heller Quotes
I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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Great men marry great women.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?
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We're all working together; that's the secret.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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As for indie writers, a lot of them don't realize that they're in the hurry-up-and-wait business, not the wait-and-hurry-up business. They work really, really, really hard at goosing the first-month sales, and then getting disappointed when those sales either go down or never happen in the first place.
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When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.
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I always wanted to go to a drama school.
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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
