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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I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life who married - they met online, online, online. And it makes sense if you think about it, because you fill out this form of 35 things that really define you and - bam - look, you've got two people who match. It works.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
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It's okay to let yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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MySpace is an addiction.
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President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.
