Lasse Hallstrom Quotes
I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
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When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.
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It's hard making a woman your wife when you've been humpin married women for most of your life.
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If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.
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For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group - or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.
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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
