Nancy Gibbs Quotes
Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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India always inspires me.
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When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
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Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
