Mary Helen Bowers Quotes

You won't find me in a sports bra and low-slung leggings.

Mary Helen Bowers

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SportsMeYouFindBra

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

Joanna Lumley

TimeMindThinkGymNeverGoing

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

LoveLove IsFateChoiceOur

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Anatoly Karpov

LifeMy LifeChess

Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?

Jeff Lemire

LoveArtWalkPeopleLiteratureYou

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Michael Caine

I AmMeInfluenceMadAnythingLike

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.

Rob Thomas

FailureFearTogetherLaughComedy

I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.

Debra Stephenson

BusinessI AmPeopleMeFeelNeed

Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the camera. When I'm shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I'm going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve.

Dee Rees

LearningGreatDisciplineMindThink

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

David Shields

MusicArtPaintingForwardRoyalty

I love wearing bow ties for no particular reason.

Brad Goreski

LoveReasonBowWearingTiesI Love

Glamour is really fun.

Annette Bening

FunGlamourReally

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

Atom Egoyan

FamilySocietyThinkYouLookFilm

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