Matthew Weiner Quotes
Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour sitcom, an hourlong, serialized drama, or a film. And I knew that it couldn't be a drama because I wanted to hide the drama - that had to be the surprise. I knew it had to be comedy.
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Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.
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I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.
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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
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Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
