Gale Anne Hurd Quotes
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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I think any message behind a lifestyle brand should embrace everyone.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
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I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
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At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and soothed her to sleep. And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight-which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
