Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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The End of the Life of Mankind on Earth is this,-that in this Life they may order all their relations with FREEDOM according to REASON.
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I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television.
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The girl in the passenger seat said she had never before been in 'a car like this,' meaning, apparently, a sedan. Richard felt far beyond merely old.
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I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
