Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
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Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
