Anne Fletcher Quotes
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
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I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.
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I used practically all the money I had available.
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If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.
