Kathleen Kennedy Quotes
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
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We are all cells in the same body of humanity.
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I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.
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People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.
