Parker Posey Quotes
Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
Quotes to Explore
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
