Ovid Quotes
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With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
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Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
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I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
