Arlene J. Chai Quotes
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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When I meet a good actor, I would like to be a director. When I meet a good director, I would like to be an actor. When there is a good script, I would like to be both a director and an actor. The switch is very natural, not intentional.
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Look at how fast technology is developing.
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My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnt in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.
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Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
