Cosima Spender Quotes
Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I grew up on films.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
