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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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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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'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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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
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I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
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This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
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Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.
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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.
