Erika Slezak Quotes
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want to watch as a viewer. I did not think like I was doing a horror film; I did not think in terms of genre. I decided on the basis of the script.
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Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.
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You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
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The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.
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I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
