Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.
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We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
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My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
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Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.
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Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
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All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.
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Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.
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I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.
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It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.
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Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.
