Loretta Devine Quotes

There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those are like basic things that the actors need to know.

Loretta Devine

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I never imagined people like Thanos and Warlock would be drawn into films. They're weird characters in weird stories. Luckily, the twisted kids who read those weird stories are now the twisted adults who are making movies.

Jim Starlin

PeopleWeirdNowMoviesNeverKids

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

John Calvin

FaithChurchNothingUnderstandYour

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

John D. Rockefeller

BlameMarketingChiefExecutiveBuck

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

Melissa Joan Hart

TimeYouSaidWhyEveryoneStarted

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Maya Lin

WorkI AmPeacefulMoreThanMuch

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

Amanda Lindhout

HomeLongCanadaBeginWonderful

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

Sidney Poitier

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Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

Tony Benn

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One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

Tom Hodgkinson

FlowerGardeningFlowersMeSeeds

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.

Rumaan Alam

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I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Mike Colter

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People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.

Joyce Carol Oates

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