Marion Nestle Quotes
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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You used to dealing with basic bitches,Basic shit all the time.I'm a new classic, upgrade your statusFrom a standby to a frequent flyer.
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Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.
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Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are.
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It's time to get the FDA to reverse its 1994 decision not to label GM foods.
