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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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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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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The true dualism I take to be the contrast between two wills, one of which is felt as vital impulse (élan vital) and the other as vital control (frein vital).
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.
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I shall keep it the manuscript by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.
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I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
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Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
