Marjorie Liu Quotes
Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.
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It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.
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The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.
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Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.
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Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.
