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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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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PENSION - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
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We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
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The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
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I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified - it was a very rough neighborhood. He felt that if I got into or started embracing the rap culture, I would be one step closer to being on the streets.
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Earlier I had been in New York, which was my first time to New York, and I got booked in the Baby Grand up in Harlem there. I was booked there for a week; they kept me there for about a month. That's where Doc Pomus and myself became very close friends and start running together around town and what not.
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I haven't been on the stage in a long time.
