Donald Freed Quotes
Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.
