Calin Rovinescu Quotes
The business itself is extraordinary levels of complication, one that is affected by virtually everything going on in the world, “multi-dimensional chess”.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. 'Why diet when you can take crystal meth?'
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I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.
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It's nice to be known for a pretty great movie.
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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
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The thing we found out was, when you get to a Super Bowl, both teams are treated the same, talked about in glowing terms. But when the game is over, only the team that won matters.
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The very act of saying anything more nuanced than 'us good, them bad' is under attack, and I'm proud to stand with artists who do.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
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I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.
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In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.
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The business itself is extraordinary levels of complication, one that is affected by virtually everything going on in the world, “multi-dimensional chess”.
