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 kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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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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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.
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In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.
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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.
