Courtney B. Vance Quotes

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

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• My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

  

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• I view myself as a male artist.

  

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• When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

  

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• I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

  

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• I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

  

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• You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

  

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• People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.

  

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• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

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• What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

  

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• I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.

  

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• When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.

  

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• I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

  

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• I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
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