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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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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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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I buy way too many books.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful.
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I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.
