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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The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.
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When you're in a conversation, genuinely be in it. Stare people in their eyes. Know what you're talking about. Enjoy that moment.
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I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.
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It's time to get the FDA to reverse its 1994 decision not to label GM foods.
