Judith Leiber Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
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If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.
