Margaret Atwood Quotes

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Margaret Atwood

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There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

Ang Lee

ThinkCareerRegretsCutOnlySome

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

John Sexton

OrganizationLookingThinkForestUp

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

Steven Hatfill

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The vast majority of Americans perform sophisticated digital tasks on a daily basis. Grandmas and grandpas e-mail digital photos of their cruise trip and IM their kids in school. So a politician admitting that he or she can't bother to learn those things indicates a horse-and-buggy mentality.

Steven Levy

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I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things.

Sissy Spacek

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When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

Sissy Spacek

The only way round is through.

Robert Frost

WayThroughRoundOnly

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not eating right, and I was not getting enough exercise. But by the nature of my diet and that lifestyle - boom! The end result was high blood sugars that reach the levels where it becomes Type 2 diabetes. I share that with a gajillion other people.

Tom Hanks

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We started watching 'Doctor Who' as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby, and she would get up during the night - and it was her dad's job to stay up because I worked at night.

Diana Gabaldon

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I like to go to the beach, have a bonfire, and play music.

Colbie Caillat

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I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

Brendon Urie

AttitudePerfectPersonAlwaysHead

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

Bruce Beresford

EnoughConnectingPointWonderful

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