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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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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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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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
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It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.
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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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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.
