Holly Hunter Quotes
What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
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What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
