Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.
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I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.
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I think the fans from the original 'Teen Wolf' tuned in expecting us to ruin the franchise, and I think that we've only heightened it. So we've brought 'Teen Wolf' back.
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In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.
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I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories.
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It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
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When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.
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I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.
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I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.
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People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.
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House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
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I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
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As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
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Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
