Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.
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Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
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I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.
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I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.
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I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
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Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.
