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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Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.
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I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
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I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.
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'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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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.
