P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
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A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published.
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The taxidermist is a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
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Be strong to love, O Heart!Love knows not wrong;Didst thou love - creatures even,Life were not long;Didst thou love God in heaven,Thou wouldst be strong!
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.
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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
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I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
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Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.
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I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
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Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.
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‘Stinko, is he?’'Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.’
