Jane Campion Quotes
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.
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Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, 'And I'm not getting laid.' What am I doing wrong?
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.
