Dean Rusk Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.
