Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
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When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.
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God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.
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Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
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Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
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I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through a meat grinder, and out comes a hot dog. It's almost unrecognizable.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
