Camryn Manheim Quotes
It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
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Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.
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There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
