Poe Ballantine Quotes
There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.
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A good rule of thumb is every couple of hours take fifteen minutes off. Naps are also very helpful, short naps. Even a ten or fifteen minute nap in the middle of the day can be the equivalent of an hour and a half of extra sleep the night before, and it can raise your effective IQ by ten points.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
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There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.
