Fay Godwin Quotes
I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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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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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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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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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
