Marjorie Liu Quotes
I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.
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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
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The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
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I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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I feel like nobody can stop me off the dribble. At crunch time, we're looking for somebody to score and I definitely want to be the guy who has the ball in his hands.
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I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.
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I don't think X-23's past is the most interesting thing about her, but it's not like she can escape it, either.
