Dede Gardner Quotes
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
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We are being held hostage by the people we elect.
