Brit Marling Quotes
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
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Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I'm hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the '90s. I'm inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt - I love that look.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.
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I'd like to tour all over the world. I'd like to be everywhere. I've really wanted to tour out of the country. I think that would be really cool.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
