George Sand Quotes
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.
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Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
