Dominick Dunne Quotes
I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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The script is just a blueprint.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.
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I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.
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In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.
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I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
