Brit Marling Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.
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Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.
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My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongside. We bled alongside each other; we mourned together. When I came home, these weren't people I could keep up with on Facebook.
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We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
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I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
