Kathleen Hanna Quotes
I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
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The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
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Working on 'Drive', a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on 'Firefly' of course. He called me up and said, 'I've got a part for you that you will love,' and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.
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In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.
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I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
