Aaron Koblin Quotes
I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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I had a fashion designer tell me that when I wear a dress of his, it sells out across the country because Jewish girls ‘look to me,’ and Jewish girls are the ones that buy expensive dresses. It made me sad, because I want to be an influence in ways other than by a pretty dress.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
