Brit Marling Quotes
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The world needs some help.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
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If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
