Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
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The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
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I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.
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Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
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Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.
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Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
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What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
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I think when you're writing films that just come fresh out of your own imagination - I think probably anyone who's done that, there are certain themes or styles.
