Winona Ryder Quotes
Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.
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Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.
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Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.
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On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable.
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Knowledge is more important than space.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.
