Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto.
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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
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I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
