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Barbara Kopple Quotes

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Barbara Kopple

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 30, 1946

Topics

Character World Story Impact Know

One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Moving Writing Week Rome Diary

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Great Moment Me Better Rise Know

I do recall one moment when I went to India by myself. I was paralyzed with fear to travel alone, but I had this intuitive hint that I had to do it. It was transformative and beautiful.

Jen Sincero

Fear Alone Beautiful Myself Moment

Dexter-Land is a dark and scary place, and I couldn't live there permanently. To be honest, I don't think I even want to visit.

Jeff Lindsay

Live Think Dark Place Want Scary

Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.

Amy Tan

Art Government Think Censorship Over

Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is the reason why I am more inclined to taking frequent sabbaticals: so that when I return, people can identify with the character I play.

Divyanka Tripathi

Character I Am People Play Why Try

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Ali Hewson

Life Live Day Losing End Someone

Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are more productive. More productive economies mean greater stability in developing countries and improved security in the West.

Seth Berkley

Children School Better Learn Healthy

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Thomas Haden Church

Pilot Protect First Did Very Moved

It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

Rick Perry

Future Freedom Control Generation

In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.

Rick Santorum

Leadership Someone Year You Election

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our ability to decide to make it happen and to think and act the right way to get the results we want, we need, we demand.

Rick Tumlinson

Challenge Money Make It Happen Think