Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes
In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
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People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
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When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.
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Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.
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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
