Jill Lepore Quotes
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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I have no guitar technique.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
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One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
