Kimora Lee Simmons Quotes
I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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If I didn't love it, I would not record it.
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As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which is entirely appropriate.
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It's crazy that most high-end designers stop at a size 14.
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I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.
