Natasha Lyonne Quotes
I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy soul, you would be beautiful any time.
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At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said 'Psst!'
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As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize it.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
