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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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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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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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
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In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
