Winifred Holtby Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.
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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
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All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
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I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.
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Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
