Marti Noxon Quotes
If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
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When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
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A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeating those stories is really important. I also think it's important to always be exposing the warning signs for what was leading up to it. Those tend to always be the same.
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If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.
