Hillary Clinton Quotes
I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Movies are too literal.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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Everything comes back to the horse, which is why I love it. You put your ego aside, and you concentrate on getting the best performance out of this creature.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
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I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
