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
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Artist

• I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Friend
  • Said

• I'm the blackest villain of all time.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Villain
  • Blackest

• 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
  • Life
  • Team
  • Respect

• 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
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Trees

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• 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
  • School
  • Book
  • Mother

• 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
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• 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
  • Paradise
  • Reasons
  • Cruel

• 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
  • Friend
  • Myself
  • Best

• A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Work

• 'Mediocrity is set as a standard...rubbish becomes acceptable. This has been the state of Tamil politics for nearly half a century'

  

  Kamal Haasan

• When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.

  

  Iman
  • True
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• 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
  • Political