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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To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you're winning as when you're losing.
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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In my final year of law school, everything became real. Malaysian TV shows wanted me to perform big concerts. So, after graduating, I decided to go for it. I didn't think I'd be a good lawyer anyway.
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Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.
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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.
