Marisa Berenson Quotes
When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
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This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound so bad at that.
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I started my business with my best friend from high school.
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I am proud to be the granddaughter and daughter of immigrants who were brave enough to leave their homes and come to a whole new world with a different language and culture and immerse themselves fearlessly to start a better life for themselves and their families.
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When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.
