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 always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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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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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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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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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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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 One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.
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He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird.
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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Il est doux de périr après ses ennemis.
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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.
