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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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 live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
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Fame put a lot of pressure on me in the Eighties and early Nineties - and I'm glad that I had the kind of makeup where I could come through it alive, keep myself in hand.
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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
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In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.
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The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.
