William Lyon Phelps Quotes
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
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Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.
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The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.
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I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.
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Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
