Loretta Devine Quotes
There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.
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Prince loves his women. It's not impossible that someday he'll be devoted to just one.
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I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.
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There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.
