Winnie Holzman Quotes
As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
Quotes to Explore
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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I don't read books.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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'How are the internal complications, anyway? Aren’t the other branches of government getting a little suspicious about all these machinations?''Let’s just say that one or two discreet assassinations may still have to be performed,' Khouri said.
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The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
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The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition.
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
