Ella Woodward Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Hate sells.
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Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.
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How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
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The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
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There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.
