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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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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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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Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him - I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.
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The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.'
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No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.
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Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
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I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
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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.
