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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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 film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
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Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
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I was heavily involved in musical theater.
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But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.
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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.
