Andrew Loog Oldham Quotes
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.
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I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
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My fans are pretty spot-on with their gifts. This girl that was super into baking had made this entire batch of cookies - there were one with a dandelion on it, one with a trailer, and some had my face.
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I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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I have no regrets.
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Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.
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You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.
