Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
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I hate birthdays.
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The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
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For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
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The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.
