Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
Lisa Cholodenko
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
Daniel Boulud
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
Ted Nugent
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
Yoenis Cespedes
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
Ike Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
M. J. Rose
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
Gary Johnson
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
Ornella Muti
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
Ed Weeks
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Captain Beefheart
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
Bayard Rustin
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I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'
Brenda Lee
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The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
John Glenn
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If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.
John Burdett
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
Quentin Blake
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This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
Lisa Cholodenko
