Edward Gardner Quotes
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.
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The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
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Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back 200 or 300 years and actually populate your family tree with real people who had names and documents. They had customs, characteristics that, unbeknownst to you, you have inherited. Almost through osmosis it has been passed down to you.
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He's a fighter. The family is trying to stay calm.
