Poppy Montgomery Quotes
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.
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Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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If it's good art, it's good.
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I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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I work my butt off to stay in shape, especially after having had a baby.
