Marti Noxon Quotes
I've been looking for a versatile and writer-driven home that could help me bring more complex, exciting, and potentially murderous characters to television - and the team at Skydance is the ideal partner for that.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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I love 'Glee.'
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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Young people want to work.
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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I've been looking for a versatile and writer-driven home that could help me bring more complex, exciting, and potentially murderous characters to television - and the team at Skydance is the ideal partner for that.
