Daisy Donovan Quotes
Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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I write in a small office at home.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.
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It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.
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Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
