Elliott Smith Quotes
There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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When you have a tough childhood, you either cry or make a joke.
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The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.
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The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can be made to work if it is charged with freshness and originality. You can have an entirely political Shakespeare production and I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat as long as it's surprising, as long as it's not just the standard, "out of the box" pseudo-transgressive production that we just see too much of nowadays.
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To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.
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There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
