Jane Campion Quotes
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.Jane Campion
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
F. Murray Abraham -
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
Halston Sage -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
Dan Buettner
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
D. B. Sweeney -
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
Otto Preminger -
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
Randy Neugebauer -
I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
Fairuza Balk -
I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
Salma Hayek -
I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
Randy Quaid
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
Randolph Scott -
I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J. A. Konrath -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
A. S. Byatt -
Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln -
Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
Kate Middleton
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I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.
Kris Kristofferson -
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
Irvine Welsh -
There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.
Dee Rees -
I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'
John Carroll Lynch -
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson -
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
Jane Campion