Donald Freed Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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The next big project, you yourself have to conceive.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.
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My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!
