Winifred Holtby Quotes
A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I speak the language of television.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?
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I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.
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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
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In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'
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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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In the days since, the question of who won the state of Florida has yet to be answered to everyone's satisfaction, ... That we were all too early in projecting a certain outcome is not open to debate.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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But of course these are scientists. Tell them to leave something alone, and all they want to do is poke it with a stick.
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A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
