Marjorie Liu Quotes
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.
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Why should youngsters get butterflies in their stomachs while working with me when my condition too is no different from theirs?
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You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.
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For many years I thought, "Well, I need to know a lot more to direct." But I looked around and watched all the people I know directing and thought, "No. I just need to know what I want it to be." Then there will be a lot of people to help me get it to there, especially Bobby Bukowski, he's a brilliant cinematographer.
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There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.
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A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
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We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.
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I think that comic books have appealed to female readers for years.
