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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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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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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Unfortunately, Haiti does not have many safe environments for children to play and express themselves.
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The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.
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I haven't always been gluten-free.
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You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.
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My plant-based diet plus fish is to credit for my low blood pressure, high energy, and robust immunity.
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My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!
