Red Grooms Quotes
I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.
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Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
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Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.
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Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
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Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.
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I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.
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I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.
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Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.
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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.
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I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.
