Marisa Berenson Quotes
When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
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A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.
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America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
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If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.
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Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!
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When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.
