Frances Conroy Quotes
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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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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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around, and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.
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Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.
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'Ice Age 4' came totally out of nowhere for me. I was told Fox Animation was interested in hiring me as a story supervisor or something or other that sounded way too professional for me.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
