Tim Finn Quotes
I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn.
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My hair journey has been lots of fun. I have always loved wigs and pieces, so I am never tied down to one style.
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Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
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I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.
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I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.
