Winona Ryder Quotes
As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.
Quotes to Explore
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Where there is love there is life.
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We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
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My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.
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I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.
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One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
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Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
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For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect.
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As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.
