Brigid Schulte Quotes
What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I'm not a leading man.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.
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What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.
