Fiona Dourif Quotes
I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
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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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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.
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The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.
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What do any of us ever truly know?
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'The Paris Review' was always the pinnacle: it was the place to be published. You were thrilled if you were published in 'The Paris Review,' and George Plimpton himself was practically mythical. He was a legendary figure.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
