Debbie Allen Quotes
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.
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I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage.
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My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.
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One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.
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I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
