Brit Marling Quotes
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.
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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
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Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:
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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
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The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
Chaka Fattah
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If you're confident, then you don't feel weird about showing your vulnerability and opening yourself up to learning from somebody else. Insecure people stay where they are because they're afraid of admitting their weaknesses.
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
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I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
