Anna Jameson Quotes
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
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A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.
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PsychologÂy is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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Dark City is such an underrated film.
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There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity.
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I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.
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We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.
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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
