Debbie Reynolds 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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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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I'm not a sun person.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
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Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
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I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.
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I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens have been incarcerated in Rikers Island.
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Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.
