Alison Goodman Quotes
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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Bernie or bust actually reduces the leverage for Bernie Sandеrs to claim victory.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!
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I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
