Amma Asante Quotes
I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create in a movie like the one I did, aesthetically, in terms of the costumes and the production design. I wanted something big and lush and beautiful and unashamedly feminine.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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I love it when a guy compliments my vibe.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
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I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.
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I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
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With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
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We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.
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I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create in a movie like the one I did, aesthetically, in terms of the costumes and the production design. I wanted something big and lush and beautiful and unashamedly feminine.
