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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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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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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From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
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President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.
