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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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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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 encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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You need to get in studio; we're excited about the Pay 1 opportunity with Disney because those movies are not just movies. They're amazing family content that get flexed over and over again, forms great loyalty with our subscribers, and it's a real trust brand for parents as well.
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Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.
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I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.
