Marla Gibbs Quotes
As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
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If you can sing together, you can live together.
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I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.
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The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.
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The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.
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I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to, you could probably employ a butler or a maid. But I'd like to have a fridge that restocks itself. I don't know what you'd call that - an automatic restocking pantry?
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
