Illeana Douglas Quotes
I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.
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Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
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Until we reach the end of time, we don’t know whether something’s been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
