Gale Anne Hurd Quotes
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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Food is always a favorite on my docket when I go somewhere.
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The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.
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Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.
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Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.
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The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. That is really one of the craziest things we've ever discovered.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
