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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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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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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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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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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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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I have oatmeal every morning with whole milk, bananas, and cinnamon, and it's just the best thing ever.
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We met with a lot of great labels, including J. We like Clive Davis and his staff a lot. There's a level of respect there that went both ways.
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We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
