Carla Hall Quotes
One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.
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If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
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One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
