- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
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- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020