Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
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Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
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I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
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I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.
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I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
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People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
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I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.
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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
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You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
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I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
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San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.
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I think American life would be better without Twitter, and I think we'd have a better country if the president was not on Twitter. What people say in a bar or a pub doesn't necessarily merit being memorialised.
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Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.
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The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
