Eileen Wilks Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!
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I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.
