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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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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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 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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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 think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
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When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.
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My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.
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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.
