Chrystia Freeland Quotes
One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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The Olympics is a dream of mine.
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Always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.
