Brit Marling Quotes
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'
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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
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I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
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I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.
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So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
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City of Los Angeles is my home, and it is my duty to lead by example, contribute all that I can, and help make the world a better place with the tools and resources available to me.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.
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When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
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We're a boring retail and commercial bank.
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Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.
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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
