Bibi Bourelly Quotes
A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.
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One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
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The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
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I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.
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A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
