N. K. Jemisin Quotes
In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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It is as though a puzzle could be put together simply by shaking its pieces.
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Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.
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...and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
