Swoosie Kurtz Quotes
To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
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I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.
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You cannot play naive if you're not.
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My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.
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It's fun to move people musically.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
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In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
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There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.
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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
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To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
