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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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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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.
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I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.
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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.
