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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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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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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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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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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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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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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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I didn't do the 'Home And Away' thing.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.
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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?
