Barbet Schroeder Quotes
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
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The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
