Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by material wealth - they have nothing to do with that.
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It would never occur to me to judge anyone.
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The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.
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The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
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On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.
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I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
