Jane Mayer Quotes
I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them anyway.
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I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.
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Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
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When you look at all this massive data that comes in from our senses, and it all has to come in through this central point, it's really interesting that we can identify the filter that our mind is using to select what it thinks is relevant and what it's going to forget.
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I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.
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I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.
