Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
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My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
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It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
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If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
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I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.