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 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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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.
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My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
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I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.
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The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger coincide.
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Whoever you are is to your advantage.
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When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one.
