Lesli Linka Glatter Quotes
My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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'The Weeds' is a timely podcast from the news and opinion website Vox. It leaves the coverage of the Punch and Judy politics to others and confines itself to the details of policy.
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When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.
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There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time.
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My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
