Alan Rudolph Quotes
So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.
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The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
