Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

John Lahr

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Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Matthew Vaughn

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God is a hero.

Stacie Orrico

GodHero

Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture - Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean - has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.

Shinsuke Nakamura

CultureWrestlingOwnJapanMix

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Romola Garai

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The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Ronnie Dunn

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The mirror is a powerful tool because it forces you to deal with yourself on a deeper level. Conceptually, paintings are like mirrors. They're an expression from the artist: 'This is how I view the world - I'm presenting it to you.'

Mickalene Thomas

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I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

Michael Lehmann

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Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in theater. I think it's such a useful tool as a person and as an actor to go back and forth between those two mediums.

Ari Graynor

RestThinkYouFallBadBack

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Anthony Minghella

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There's a couple of times that I did it for the... paycheck. Even when I was younger - I remember I did this movie that wasn't good, called '1969.' I totally did it 'cause I could get out of school.

Winona Ryder

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When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.

Peter Steele

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