Ethan Coen Quotes

With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.

Ethan Coen

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Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

Jodie Foster

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I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

Andrew Rannells

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Quality is the Buddha.

Robert M. Pirsig

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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

Merlin Olsen

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I have always felt that my career was not going to be a straight shot up, but more of a kind of rolling wave, so that I could raise my children. So I got pregnant when I was the head of production at a studio, and I became chairperson at a bigger studio when I was pregnant with my second daughter. You just do it!

Stacey Snider

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What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

Steve-O

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Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

Shunryu Suzuki

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It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

Jolene Blalock

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It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.

Johnny Kidd

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I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

Dolph Lundgren

GoodMindTryUpArtsKeep

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

Chris Raschka

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