Tamara Tunie Quotes
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
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I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.
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Let us remember, there is One who daily records all we do for Him, and sees more beauty in His servants' work than His servants do themselves... And then shall His faithful witnesses discover, to their wonder and surprise, that there never was a word spoken on their Master's behalf, which does not receive a reward.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
