Karyn Kusama Quotes
Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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We could figure out ways with small aerospace companies to do a low-cost spacecraft and lander. But we could not find a way to do a low-cost launcher, unless we went to the Russians.
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Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.
