Lesli Linka Glatter Quotes
I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?
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An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.
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Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic … I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
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It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
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It was in His parting sorrow - that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
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What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
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And then once in Australia, I really hit the weights hard.
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I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
