Mary Timony Quotes
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I just do what I do. I like to make music.
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I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.
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I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.
