Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.
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To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
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When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
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I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.
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I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.
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He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities.
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This guy is just fumbling around.
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I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.
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I always had a vision about beauty in general, so probably that's what really drove me into that direction of creating a makeup brand.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
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I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
