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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Being evil is easy.
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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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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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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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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
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I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.
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We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.
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I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
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I affirm, therefore, that our present position is one of apostasy; and to give the ballot to the negro will be no innovation, but a return to the old paths, a restoration of that spirit of liberty to which the sufferings and sacrifices of the Revolution gave birth.
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One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.
