E. L. James Quotes
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
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Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.
