Deanna Petherbridge Quotes
In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They're not based on anyone I've ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.
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The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
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My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
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I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
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In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
