Lily King Quotes
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.
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When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
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I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.
