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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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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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
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When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing.
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We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.
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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.
