Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Quotes to Explore
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
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I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.
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Your dressing area should be your private space.
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Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.
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The bikini waxing, after we go there you can't turn back.
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Such grief might make the mountain stoop, reverse the waters where they flow, but cannot burst these ponderous bolts that block us from the prison cells crowded with mortal woe...
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'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
