Taika Waititi Quotes
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.
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I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.
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I've been pushing for the longest time that you get the votes easier and with more enthusiasm when people feel like you're addressing their concerns.
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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.
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A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
