John Steinbeck Quotes
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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I'm not a nice person.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.
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I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
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“The balls as slippery as a wet trout”
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
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I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
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I am a dog.