Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
Natalie Dormer
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
Zach Braff
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
Dan Gilroy
Breakfast Club
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I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
Becky G
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
Lance Loud
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Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject - basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. - so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.
Jack Dangermond
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At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
Nancy McKeon
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
Olga Kurylenko
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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
Viggo Mortensen
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There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
Zadie Smith
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I'm going to go and leave my blood all over the track.
Nick Rogers
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Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.
Adi Da
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell
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In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
Daniel Boulud
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They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.
Catherynne M. Valente
