Edward J. Flanagan Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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I am proud of my heritage and my family.
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As homeowners see the value of their homes decline, they become more likely to delay purchases of the big items - like automobiles, electronics and home appliances - that are ballasts of the American economy. When those purchases decline, large manufacturing firms, suddenly short on funds, could begin laying off employees.
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On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
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Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.
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In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.
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The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.
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Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.
