Lela Rochon Quotes
There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
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Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from my own life - is that writing the truth often requires invention and imagination.
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All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have emotions and have real-life thoughts.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.
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There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.
