Nathalie Emmanuel Quotes
There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to keep my finger on the pulse of snowboarding.
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.
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Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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[Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.
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This was an unbelievable experience.
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There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.
