Lin Shaye Quotes
I think the first thing is don't give up. If you love the craft. If you love being a detective and discovering who a character is and the detail of how they walk and what kind of shoes they wear and what did they do yesterday and what's important to them. I definitely advise actors to learn about the craft.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.
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I think the first thing is don't give up. If you love the craft. If you love being a detective and discovering who a character is and the detail of how they walk and what kind of shoes they wear and what did they do yesterday and what's important to them. I definitely advise actors to learn about the craft.
