Lurlene McDaniel Quotes
When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
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To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
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I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.
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I am bound by a contract to not accept other films until 'Mohenjo Daro''s release.
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Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.
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When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully
