Nicole Holofcener Quotes

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

Nicole Holofcener

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At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

Jim Walton

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I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

Joan Collins

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We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.

Jesse Kellerman

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Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.

Robert Gottlieb

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My time of martial arts was traditional.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

John Sununu

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When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it.

Amy Sedaris

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

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The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.

Steven Price

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When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs.

Matt Apuzzo

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I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

Joy Behar

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You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

Cindy Crawford

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