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Debbie Allen

"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."

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"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."

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Debbie Allen
"I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director."

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Debbie Allen
"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio."

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Debbie Allen
"You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?"

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Debbie Allen
"The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then."

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Debbie Allen
"But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period."

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Debbie Allen
"That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene."

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"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."

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"The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration."

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Debbie Allen
"I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?"

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Debbie Allen
"In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time."

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Aberjhani

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

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Aberjhani

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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Aberjhani

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

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Aberjhani

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

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Aberjhani

"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."

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Aberjhani

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."

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Aberjhani

"A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day."

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Aberjhani

"Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment."

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"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."

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"Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day."

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