John Boorman Quotes
You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.
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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.
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To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
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The artist is the bearer of life.
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Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.
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I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
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Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.
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You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.
