Winnie Holzman Quotes
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
Quotes to Explore
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
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There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
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My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
