Kathryn Bigelow Quotes
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
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I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.
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With Big Bird we knew we wanted to do a large, a great big character. He should represent a child so he can make the kinds of mistakes that kids make, and talk about it and be out front about that.
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Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
