Marley Dias Quotes
My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
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The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I've got a personal trainer, and I train three times a week.
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The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
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My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
