Lorene Scafaria Quotes
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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You get to become a kid again when you work with kids. They do crazy stuff.
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We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.
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I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
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Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.
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Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.
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Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.
