Marina Warner Quotes
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
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Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
