Brian Acton Quotes
For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.
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I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
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My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
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For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.
