Illeana Douglas Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.When the angry breakers roarAs they beat on the rocky shore;-When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heightsOf the Hills of the Chankly Bore
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
