Marya Mannes Quotes
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.
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Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
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The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.
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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
