Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
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'See, there’s a bit of a problem here. It’s true that editors are always begging for something new and different, but if you’re dumb enough to try to give it to them they don’t recognize it. When they ask for ‘different,’ what they mean is something right down the good old ‘different’ groove.'
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The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
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I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
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I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
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My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.
