Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes
Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.

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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
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I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.
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Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.
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I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
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Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window.
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It's bad. It's damned bad.
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Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.
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BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.
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If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.
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Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.