Eula Biss Quotes
Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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Celebrate my escape, sold the Glock, bought some weight. Laid back, I got some money to make. Motherfucker!
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I wore a blue spandex outfit and a gold belt. It was goofy and off-the-wall, but I love doing things like that.
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
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Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
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For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of sewing is ending. Now is a time for rending, not for the sake of disengaging from culture or retreating from the public square, but so that our salt does not lose its savor.
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I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.
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Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
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Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.
