Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
“Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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I loved junior golf.
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When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
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I think often people fall into the breadth trap of wanting to do too long a period of time, and obviously there's this sort of algorithm of how much depth you can put into something times how much of their life you're trying to show. My attitude has always been, I'd rather show a briefer period of time in more detail than a longer period of time in less detail.
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“Violet,” he said. “How could I say I loved you and expect you to do something you didn’t want?
