Dana Plato Quotes
I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
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I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.
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Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.
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I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.
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Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.
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I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
