James Vanderbilt Quotes
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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A hard man is good to find.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
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I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.
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We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Creflo Dollar is compromising, confusing or outright contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Joel Osteen does exactly the same thing. Now, not necessarily the exact same doctrines, but he is compromising, confusing or contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Their view of faith is a force, words are the containers of the force, and through the force of faith, one can create his or her own reality. That's not biblical faith. That's a false faith, or faith that doesn't satisfy and ultimately will lead people into harm's way.
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I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.
