Brit Marling Quotes
I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
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One only has to watch aging siblings scrap over the worthless pots and pans and scuffed furniture of a deceased parent's estate- like toddlers over toys- to see how desperate is the need to wrest some last, pathetic, tangible measure of their parent's devotion.
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The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
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But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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I don't think we yet know - because it's probably not big enough - what exactly Amazon does to our cities, but whatever it is, I don't anticipate retail wastelands. If anything, it's maybe a wake-up call to retailers that they just have to offer something meaningful to customers.
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I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
