Eric Schlosser Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
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I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!
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It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.
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I was physically addicted to 'Tony Hawk's American Wasteland' for PS2.
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I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.
