Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Quotes
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
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If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
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I have no great message to the world.
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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My biggest point to everybody is you have a responsibility to build your own network.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
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I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.
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I came from a real working-class show business family.
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Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.
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I have become cautious. There is no fixed formula. Today audience's sensibilities are sharp. You can't feed them rubbish. They want to watch good films. The script has to be appealling. Even if it is larger than life, it has to be realistic. Audiences have to identify with what you are showing.
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A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.
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Style, to me, is an extension of one's personality, a kind of self expression which is very personal. It is an expression of your moods, your personality.
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Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
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Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.
