Karyn Kusama Quotes

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

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• Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Real
  • Home
  • Night

• Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Great
  • Songs

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
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  • Thought

• I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Occurred

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• I dream about doing a film about once a week.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dream
  • Doing
  • Week

• New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Art
  • New
  • New York

• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Moved
  • Active

• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Everything
  • Something
  • Once

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • World
  • Live
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• What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Eyes
  • Trees
  • Herbs

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Movies

• Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Experience
  • History
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• I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Experience
  • Emotions
  • Happened

• When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Rooms

• It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,

  

  John Robert Seeley
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Experience