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Lasse Hallstrom Quotes

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Lasse Hallstrom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: swedish
Birth: June 2, 1946

Topics

Character Sacrifice Key Because Plot

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

You Dream Country Two Just Between

As bad as it feels, it's familiar to you. And the depression itself is making you unable to reach out. So, I've definitely experienced that in my life.

Life Depression Reach My Life You

To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.

Thought Acting Never Ground Honest

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Take Film Characters Roles Really

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Life Car Beautiful Path Light Past

I'm one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.

Michael Beschloss

People Night Wrong Go Horrible Lies

At Translation, we pride ourselves on being one of the most diverse agencies in the industry - and with that diversity comes a wealth of different talents and perspectives. The onus is on us to empower our employees to use those considerable talents to create real systemic change.

Change Diversity Pride Employees

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

Mother Loved Her Like

I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.

Jonathan Franklin

Fishing I Am People Amazing Me Look

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

People Me Small Someone Mouth Beat

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Imagination Storm Practice Plan Two

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Alice Morse Earle

Plants America Pretty Chief Claim

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