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Quotes by Celebrity
"I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life."
"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."
Food,
"I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport."
"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
"You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop."
Time,
"I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake."
"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"
"I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting."
"I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before."
"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."
"I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund."
"I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right."
"I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old."
"The support in Britain made a big difference."
"At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years."
"We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants."
"When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border."
"Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities."
"Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case."
"Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining."
"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner."
"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
"The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure."
"Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script."
"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
"While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able."
"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
"Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love."
"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."
"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
"But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity."
"Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability."
"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator."
"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
"I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts."
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