Chris Doubek Quotes
With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I was in a very fancy, high-end boutique where the sales associates stand around like mannequins. I walked in and the first thing they said was, "Ooh it smells like booty in here" because they knew me from Scream Queens.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.
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With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.
