Mona Sutphen Quotes

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Mona Sutphen

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• I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

  

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• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

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• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

  

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• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

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• I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.

  

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• When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.

  

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• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

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• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
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• I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

  

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• What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.

  

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• There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

  

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• I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.

  

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• I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

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• When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.

  

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• Science brings men nearer to God.

  

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• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  

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• Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

  

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• The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.

  

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

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• Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
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  • Pain

• I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

  

  Mona Sutphen
  • People
  • Found
  • Complaining