Lasse Hallstrom Quotes
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
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I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.
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I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film.
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I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.
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When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
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I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
