Zoe Perry Quotes
Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising, or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.
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As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.
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My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
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Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.
