Winnie Holzman Quotes
This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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A veces creo que no existe todo lo que veo. Porque todo lo que veo es todo lo que vi. Y todo lo que vi no existe.
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I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
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I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.
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The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
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I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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It doesn't matter. I look at it like this, the start of the season I'll do what I've always done. That's it.
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My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.
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The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
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If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.
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I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.
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If you try to do your best there is no failure.
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
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I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.
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It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
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We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
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This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.
