Julia Barr Quotes
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
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There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
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We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
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Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.
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In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other.
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People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.
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I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.
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A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.
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Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.
