Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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I will run against anybody.
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Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional.
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I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.
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'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
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I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
