Lou Adler Quotes
In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
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It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.
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My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
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I am always friendly with my co-actors and even other actresses, too.
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In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.
