Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes
There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
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On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
