nori grudin

CT Lady, Fantasy Blogger, Good Listener, Non Judgemental, Expert Mudslide Maker & friends call me Cha Cha Jr

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"I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable." - Sandra Bullock

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"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true." -
Gustav Klimt

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"Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing." - Duke Ellington

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"In music the passions enjoy themselves." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.' " - Mike Nichols

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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." - W. H. Auden

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"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal." - Flannery O'Connor

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"Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He thought I was this actress living in New Orleans and it was my first job." -
Jennifer Coolidge

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"Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house." - Faith Ringgold

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"I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy." - Gloria Estefan

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"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author." - Jean de la Bruyere

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"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of." - Guy Ritchie

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"My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong." -
Langston Hughes

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"Remarks are not literature." - Gertrude Stein

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"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven." - Salma Hayek

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"Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting." - Roy Lichtenstein

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"I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies." - Bruno Mars

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"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Kamal Haasan is a huge talent." -
Mani Ratnam

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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." - John Keats