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" Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever! "
Tamra Davis
Someone
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" I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers. "
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" Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important. "
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" Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director. "
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" My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa. "
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" If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker. "
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" My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York. "
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" It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class. "
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" I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show. "
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" It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.' "
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" It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25. "
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" All of my main characters have been under 30. "
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" I'm extremely determined and ambitious. "
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" I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it! "
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" Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school. "
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" A mom can't afford to be sick. "
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" How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously. "
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" I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person. "
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" I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools. "
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" I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity. "
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" I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor. "
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" What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun. "
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" Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention. "
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" I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal. "
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" It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood. "
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" In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. "
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" Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned. "
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