Carrie Vaughn Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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I love all things Christmas.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.
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I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
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Cormac drove. He eyed me in the rearview mirror. “Anyone you want me to beat up?"
