Eve Arnold Quotes
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
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If food were free, why work?
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I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
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I give everything far too much thought. If you think you know what you're doing, then you can kind of relax, and then you can improvise and play and just enjoy the day rather than be chasing the lines.
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Themes recur again and again in my work.
