Louise Rennison Quotes
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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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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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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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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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I really write for people.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
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Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.
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The habit of the religious way of thinking has biased our mind so grievously that we are - terrified at ourselves in our nakedness and naturalness; it has degraded us so that we deem ourselves depraved by nature, born devils.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.