Jane Campion Quotes
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
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I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.
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Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.
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Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.
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Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
