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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There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
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Israel's strength will allow it to face the situation. We will carry on running the country and pray for good news from the hospital.
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Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.
