Richard LaGravenese Quotes
I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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I'm the original.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.
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Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
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We propose first to expand credit in order to create demand. That new and greater demand must, of course, be met by a new and greater supply of goods, or all the evils of inflation and price rise will result. Here our Socialist planning must enter in. We must see that more goods are forthcoming to meet the new demand.
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The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.
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The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.
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Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
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Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
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Fighting disparities is very significant.
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We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
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I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
