Dee Dee Myers Quotes
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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We always trend set.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.
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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.
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I am a big Batman fan, not so much a Superman fan.
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Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.
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President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.
