Denise Di Novi Quotes
The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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No wonder poets sometimes have to seem. So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.
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I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
