Edie Brickell Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
Ed Westwick
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
Aaron Johnson
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
Taylor Sheridan
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
Tananarive Due
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
Felicity Jones
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
Taylor Sheridan
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
Patrick Wilson
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
Vanessa Morgan
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
Octavia Spencer
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
Larry King
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
Barry McGuigan
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
Kat Dennings
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
Olivier Martinez
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
Gary Bettman
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Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder
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Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
Simone Signoret
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I'm not a party person.
Mahesh Babu
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
Pankaj Mishra
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
Edie Brickell