Dani Shapiro Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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Failure is a part of success.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.
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America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.
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This is for all you dreamers out there, anything is possible, dream big and never give up.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
