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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."

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Donna Grant

"Through all life changes , God is in control."

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Donna Grant

"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

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Donna Grant

"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

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Donna Grant

"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

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Donna Grant

"Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it."

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Donna Grant

"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."

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Donna Grant

"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

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Donna Grant

"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."

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Donna Grant

"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."

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Debbie Allen
"As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them."

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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."

Riot

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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
"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
"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."

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Debbie Allen
"Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage."

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Debbie Allen
"But out of limitations comes creativity."

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Debbie Allen
"The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that."

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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."

Woman

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Debbie Allen
"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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