Marti Noxon Quotes
Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.
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As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
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Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.
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Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'
