Brit Marling Quotes
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
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Isolationism is over.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.
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I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
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I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
