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All Quotes Collection
"I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul."
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"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
41
"Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it."
38
"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."
45
"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
56
"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
57
"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."
47
"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
Work,
37
"The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose."
22
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
13
"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies."
66
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
12
"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done."
36
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
15
"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you."
13
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
25
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
45
"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."
11
"If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days."
35
"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
45
"The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men."
39
"With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office."
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