Emma McLaughlin Quotes
Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
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Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
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I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.
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«¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?»
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.
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Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
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Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.
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Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.
