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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When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.
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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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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
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One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.
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Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
