Virginia Madsen Quotes
It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
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As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
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She looked creepy/adorable.
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When I’m photographing I see life.
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I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.
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Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
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It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
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It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.
