Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
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I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.
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Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
