Mary Hansen Quotes
I don't think of things globally myself, but I kind of would like to think of things where they are tangible and here. Then I can grasp that concept.
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I don't think of things globally myself, but I kind of would like to think of things where they are tangible and here. Then I can grasp that concept.
