Agnes Meyer Driscoll Quotes
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
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At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
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We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
