Marti Noxon Quotes
There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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I grew up in the church.
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
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I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.
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I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
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Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
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I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
