Richard Stanley Quotes
'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.
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Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.
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You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.
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I'm fearless, to a degree.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.
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It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
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I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
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I hate musicals. There, I said it.
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I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.
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What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
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'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.
