William Deresiewicz Quotes
If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
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What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.
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My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
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If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.
