Elana Dykewomon Quotes
When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
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I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
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I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.
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A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
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If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
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The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries: There is no Kurdish state. But that shouldn't prevent the Kurds from continuing to develop their own institutions. Still, the best thing for them would be to remain a part of Iraq, but in return we must treat them with respect - their nationality, their language and their culture.
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When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
