Michael Cunningham Quotes

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.

Michael Cunningham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 6, 1952

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Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

Joe Morton

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Forget goals. Value the process.

Jim Bouton

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News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

Jessica Savitch

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I'd rather be a great mom than a sexy model.

Jennifer Flavin

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Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

Andrew J. West

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I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Maya Rudolph

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I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it creates should be become evident as early as 2016.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

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I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

Diane Ackerman

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To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.

Brad Pitt

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For me, the most exciting thing is that Jane Campion is a woman we can all really look up to. She doesn't have the body of work that some other directors do - no woman director does - but her work is so consistently original, wonderful, masterful.

Allison Anders

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International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Norman Finkelstein

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