Marti Noxon Quotes
That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Dreams don't come true, they are true.
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I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy - you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do
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The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
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That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material.
