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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Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one's stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.
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I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
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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.
