Madeline Zima Quotes
When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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Eye hath not seen, tongue hath not told, And ear hath not heard it sung, How buoyant and bold, though it seem to grow old, Is the heart, forever young; - Forever young, - though life's old age Hath every nerve unstrung: The heart, the heart, is a heritage That keeps the old man young!
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It is possible for political forces to agree.
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My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!" Neither of my parents ever said, "Be quiet! Stop talking!" I remember my father looking me in the eye and asking, "What are you thinking? What are you feeling?" That's what I do in my job now - I say. "OK, how do I feel about this?" And I immediately know, because that's how I grew up.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.
