Marjorie Liu Quotes
We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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Action, not words.
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When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
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We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.
