Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Quotes
Choosing to laugh doesn’t undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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What I do is I do my job.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.
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You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.
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Choosing to laugh doesn’t undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.
