Marlo Thomas Quotes
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and when I was a little kid, my aunts and uncles would send me Boomer Esiason T-shirts and Ickey Woods mini-footballs, so I got hooked on those guys.
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A Korean reporter once asked me, 'Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?' I said, 'I don't think they're ashamed because they're Korean. I think any parents would be ashamed.'
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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
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I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
