Wendy Kopp Quotes
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I really love storytelling.
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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Taxes suck. They really stink.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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I'm not the best at getting myself breakfast, but if I do, I'll normally have toast and marmalade.
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When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.
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I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
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I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.
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I usually don't really have breakfast.
