Gene Tierney Quotes
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
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I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
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I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend my day meeting startup after startup, helping our portfolio companies, bringing in speakers, and soon gearing up for Demo Day for our accelerator program.
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
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Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.
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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
