Illeana Douglas Quotes
I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I can hang out with all my boyfriend's friends. I know how to roll with the guys.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
