Mary Szybist Quotes
When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
