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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Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
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I think it's hard for quieter, more introverted people to get into acting.
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I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
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I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.
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I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.
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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.
