Nell Freudenberger Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I don't like working in front of a camera.
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Had it been us staging the Games, I don't think we would necessarily have done the switcheroo with the girl with the braces
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Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
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Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
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I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
