Natalie Massenet Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
