Yvette Mimieux Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.
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Authorities in Rabat believe that if we create a Moroccan character, even in a work of fiction, we are responsible for the image of Moroccan women.
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...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
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I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.
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There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.
