Adrienne Shelly Quotes
I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.
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When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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Politics is compromise.
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It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
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I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
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I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
