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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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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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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I love doing kids' films.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.
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I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
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I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
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I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
