Dorothea Brande Quotes
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
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Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
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Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
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I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.
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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
