Illeana Douglas Quotes
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I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.
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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
