David Oakes Quotes
You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it. It was always a hobby. The funny thing was that when I started to get paid to do it as a professional job, I lost my hobby. I don't know what to do. I have to take up something else now.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne Dyer
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter
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I like seeing girls throw down.
Mackenzie Foy
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
Laura Kightlinger
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Natalie Imbruglia
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
Aaron Stanford
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The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.
Halima Aden
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
Edmund Phelps
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles
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It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
Dakota Fanning
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My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.
Aaron Lazar
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
Orson Welles
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You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.
Brian Wilson
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander Hamilton
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Si yo fuera quien se conduce a sí mismo, no iría por la senda que conduce a morir.
Antonio Porchia
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
Jodi Picoult
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Atkins - I was on that for two weeks. All I lost was 14 days.
Frank Vincent
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I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times - happy, sad, and otherwise - but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.
Amruta Khanvilkar
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What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.
Gabrielle Union
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People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.
Chuck Klosterman
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You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it. It was always a hobby. The funny thing was that when I started to get paid to do it as a professional job, I lost my hobby. I don't know what to do. I have to take up something else now.
David Oakes