Bill Copeland Quotes
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
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Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.
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Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.
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I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
