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.Parker Posey
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.
Nancy Kress -
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.
Quincy Jones -
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan -
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
Beck -
I have learned to be patient.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
Kate McKinnon
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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.
Jackson Browne -
Marriage has made me safer.
Kate Winslet -
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
Madchen Amick -
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Uta Hagen -
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
Idris Elba -
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.
Earl Weaver
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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.
Kate O'Mara -
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.
Daniel Boulud -
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.
Usher -
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.
Adam Davidson -
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
Zubin Mehta -
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Otto Wallach
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I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
Ted Nugent -
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
Larry Bird -
When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
Lana Parrilla -
I grew up in New York.
Yunjin Kim -
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
Sadie Frost -
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.
Parker Posey