Illeana Douglas Quotes
I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I still want to kiss you. To feel the life in you seize on the life in me. Raw and fresh and new.
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Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
