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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Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You can't dismiss Josey Wales' quite liberal worldview.
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I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.
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If you'd got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.
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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.
