Lynda Obst Quotes
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
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I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
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I apologize for nothing.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
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It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
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I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
