Carol Leifer Quotes
I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
Malorie Blackman
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You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
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One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.
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I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
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I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.
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I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.
Carol Leifer