Lorene Scafaria Quotes
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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If there's anything material and we didn't report it we'd be breaking the law. We don't break the law.
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John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
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Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.
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Often, sustainability is discussed only in the context of energy. Energy sustainability is essential - but the word has a much broader meaning. It means long-term thinking about how we manage our businesses, invest in social spending, and plan for the future. This requires vision and leadership, and it requires citizen engagement.
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It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.
