Charlize Theron Quotes
Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.Charlize Theron
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
Harlan Coben -
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
Umberto Eco -
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
Natasha Trethewey -
Being evil is easy.
J. K. Simmons -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
Kage Baker
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. Wong -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
Fat Joe -
You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
Felicity Jones -
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
Barney Frank -
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
Daniel Cormier -
Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
Yolanda Adams -
I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
Eden Hazard -
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney -
Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
Madeline Carroll
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I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.
Frances McDormand -
Toys today are more stereotyped than they were 20 years ago; the market is even more segmented. And they can go into their own kitchen anytime they want, for God's sake. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't matter because girls are doing everything anyway, even being soldiers.
Eleanor Smeal -
There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.
Oswald Chambers -
This burden is going to be a great one. One in four of these students have dependent children and more than 75 percent are first-generation students.
Lloyd Doggett -
Fran McDormand was great because she said, 'What I used to do when I worked with him was I would just walk on the set and I would give him a big hug. Somehow his guard would just drop.' So I took that advice.
Charlize Theron