I hate tooting my own horn, ...

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: \
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.