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 would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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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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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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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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As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.
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If you guarantee the postage, I'll mail you back the key.
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Light works most effectively in darkness.
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The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.
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The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
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I work my butt off to stay in shape, especially after having had a baby.
