Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.
Lisa Cholodenko
Quotes to Explore
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
Walter Gropius
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I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.
Gary Ross
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
Oprah Winfrey
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
Rachel Johnson
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
Imre Kertesz
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My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
Barry Sanders
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
Idi Amin
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.
Zooey Deschanel
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Randall Terry
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Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.
Ike Skelton
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I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there!
Gary Johnson
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.
Harold E. Varmus
