Janet Maslin Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running.
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
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Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
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Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
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It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
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Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.
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Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about.
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People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
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The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.
