Fiona Shaw Quotes
I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.
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When I started my career, I saw that everybody was using Twitter.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
