Dorothy Fields Quotes
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
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Class clowns become actors.
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For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
