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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Back in the day, I was a Royce Gracie fan and a fan of Tank Abbott. It's always the different-looking guys that you want to root for. Then there were guys like Mark Coleman and Randy Couture, so for me to get in there and fight against guys like that is pretty cool.
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The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
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Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.
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Everyone is going to be skeptical if they don't know what is happening.
