Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
Along my path, I've realized that this comedy/drama balance is something that's really interesting to me, and I feel, like, authentic to my voice.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.
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If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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I believe the most interesting thing to look at in the world is the human face, so that is why I tend to be a little closer to human faces than maybe other directors will be.
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I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
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Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.
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Along my path, I've realized that this comedy/drama balance is something that's really interesting to me, and I feel, like, authentic to my voice.
