Winnie Holzman Quotes
As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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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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Pop music should be about young people.
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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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The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.
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I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
