Inga Muscio Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I'm not politically correct.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
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I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
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I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.
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I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.
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The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
