Ellen McLaughlin Quotes
I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.
Quotes to Explore
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.
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I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.
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Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.
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I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.
