Andrew Wiles Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
