Jeffrey Skoll Quotes
My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.
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It is so important to share experiences with one another. Humans are so often in their own heads and not looking to others. But we have to realize that we are always invited to be a part of someone else's story - we are together in this.
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I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.
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What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.
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I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like foundation, contour, highlight, eyeliner, shadow, lashes, lipstick - everything! But I really, really love my contours.
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My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
