Natasha Lyonne Quotes
The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Once I loved, and she I loved was darkened.Again I loved, and love itself was darkened.Vainly we follow the circle of shadowy days.The screen at last grows dark, the flutes are silent.The doors of night are closed. We go our ways.
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What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
