Marina Warner Quotes
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
