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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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
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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.
