Mark Rydell Quotes
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
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No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
