Carol Leifer Quotes
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.
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Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.
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There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
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It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.
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Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
