Martin Buber Quotes
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
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'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.
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Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.
