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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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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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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Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
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The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
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The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.
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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.
