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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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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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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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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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.
