Jane Horrocks Quotes
Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.
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It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
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Print is not dead.
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I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
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Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
