Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.
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I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.
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My childhood lacked affection and ambience.
