- Producer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- American Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
- Guns
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020