Jeff Bridges Quotes
I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.
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I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
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There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.
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We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did was he pulled the world of politics into the world of reality television.
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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
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All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.
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I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
