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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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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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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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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Oh the things you can find If you don't stay behind!
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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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.
