O. Winston Link Quotes
I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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When a show becomes successful, people want to hire the people on the show for other things, and we would all try to do other things, but we could never end up doing them, so casting directors were just like, 'Enough of them! Don't touch the 'Glee' kids, because you can't use them!'
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I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.'
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Forgiveness.
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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
