Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes

Having been raised overseas, I wanted to become a diplomat. But the State Department thought I was too 'liberal' to be happy with that job.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: algerian
  • Birth: January 3, 1940

Topics

JobHappyBe HappyThoughtBecome

From now on, I will work with other people's material if it fits where I want to go.

Jiang Wen

WorkPeopleGoNowWantWill

The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.

Jenny Shipley

WomenTodayWorldProblemsPotential

I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.

John Fusco

HistoryManPhilosophyYouYoungUp

I will do crazy skincare things in the kitchen... I love coconut oil, so if I come home at night feeling all dry and like a fossil, I'll put my hand in a jar of coconut oil and just mush it over my face.

Suki Waterhouse

LoveHomeCrazyNightKitchenFace

I was a big fan of G. Dep!

Stromae

BigBig FanFan

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Shoshana Zuboff

ExperienceWorldTake For GrantedOld

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

Martin Scorsese

StoryThinkStructureOpenWithin

There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.

Michael Moore

WaterPeopleDrinking WaterClean

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

Lucinda Williams

PeopleMeWritingFreeProblemKnow

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

Judith Malina

TruthPeopleMeStand UpStandLook

I love that Mel Gibson.

Jon Gruden

LoveI LoveGibson

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.

Dom DeLuise

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