Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
Of all the things I wish for in this world, I want you to find happiness. I suspect you never will have that with me, and I've resigned myself to the matter.”
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Many people who know me call me 'the hardest working man in the news business' because you're never, ever going to outwork me.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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Of all the things I wish for in this world, I want you to find happiness. I suspect you never will have that with me, and I've resigned myself to the matter.”
