Lynda Obst Quotes

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Lynda Obst

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My main weakness is nerves.

Megan Fox

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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Michael Caine

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The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Sol LeWitt

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They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

Tommy Chong

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You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Rosa Parks

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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Roy H. Williams

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When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Mike Mills

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If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

Mireille Guiliano

BelieveYouLostWillMoreForce

Acting is wonderful, but it's not pulling in the type of money that I want. It's not bringing in the type of money that I am used to or the type of money that is going to supply my lifestyle. I'm a leisure girl; I like to be over in Italy or in Europe, you know shopping or vacationing, you know.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

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I grew up in rural Dixon, CA, and I've been hunting with my father ever since I was a young boy. He taught me how to hunt and shoot, firearm safety, and have respect for the outdoors.

Jon Pardi

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It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

Craig Brown

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