Salli Richardson Quotes
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.
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I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
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You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
