Ann Callis Quotes
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.
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I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.
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Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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I'm trying to make sure that the visual connections between the disparate elements are strong enough for the viewer to keep moving through the work. It's in paying attention to those hundreds of details that the flow of the line will guide an audience through the narrative in a way that will make them enter it enough to engage with it, and perhaps construct their own narrative.
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Families in Illinois don't want lies and political mudslinging.
