Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
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I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
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Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'
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I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. One of them, Dick, is an evil, foot-biting cat. When I write a tiger morph, I'm always imagining Dick.
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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
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I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.
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There are no ordinary cats.
