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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.
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Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
