Leslie Caron Quotes
You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I just write mechanical things.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.
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I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
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I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.
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I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.
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Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.
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One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
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You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
