Rod Lurie Quotes

Anything about Iraq is a death sentence at the box office... You can't make movies about an unpopular war while the war is still going on - people don't want to pay to get depressed, though they sometimes will go to movies to get educated.

Rod Lurie

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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

Jhonen Vasquez

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I think as far as themes, 'Hedwig' is about what music meant to you as a kid and how rock n' roll can save you; that is definitely part of it.

John Cameron Mitchell

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You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Joel Osteen

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My only goal is to be the best actress I can be. You have to give it everything. All I have as an actress is the revelation of my soul.

Mia Goth

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I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

Amy Winehouse

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Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?

Ana Navarro

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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Russell Smith

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We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

Ruben Studdard

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It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world... What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn't.

Mira Nair

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As long as I don't rush things, I'm a lot better fighter.

Luke Rockhold

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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Louis Aragon

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It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

Drake

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