Michelle Dean Quotes

A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.

Michelle Dean

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HistoryAmericaWinnerPersonDesire

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

Jerry Buss

ImpossibleGoScholarshipWithout

It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.

Joel Silver

GreatHardAnythingShootHereJust

What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of change as we live in its idealist manufactured dream, built by developers.

John Van Hamersveld

ChangeLiveWorldDreamCalifornia

My mother told me it's better to start using anti-aging products even at a young age. Especially since I'm an actress, and I'm constantly under stage lights or exposed to a lot of sunlight.

Song Hye-kyo

MotherAgeMeStartBetterLights

There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.

Rupert Friend

LifeGreatJoyMagicIllusionMeet

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

Rupert Friend

HappinessMeControlEarlyCareer

I wish I could do everything in 3D.

Martin Scorsese

WishI WishEverythingCould

You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.

Mo Ibrahim

FlyYouPlaceGoAfricaOver

When the other kids started calling me nicknames, I knew everything was all right. I have a pretty big mouth, so they hit on that and began calling me Gatemouth or Satchelmouth, and that Satchelmouth has stuck to me all my life, except that now it's been made into 'Satchmo' - 'Satchmo' Armstrong.

Louis Armstrong

LifeMeMy LifeMouthNowRight

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

Julia Leigh

TrustTogetherPictureFilmmaking

I always loved playing basketball. That was never a problem for me. You want to go to the park or the gym, I'll play with you all day, but working out, I didn't love. I hated it.

Draymond Green

LoveDayMeBasketballLovedYou

Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.

David Suzuki

BeingDoomAboutGloom

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