Sarah Vowell Quotes
Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
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Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
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Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
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Die Kunst an und für sich selbst ist edel; deßhalb fürchtet sich der Künstler nicht vor dem Gemeinen. Ja indem er es aufnimmt, ist es schon geadelt, und so sehen wir die größten Künstler mit Kühnheit ihr Majestätsrecht ausüben.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.
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I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
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No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.
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In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
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When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.
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I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.
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A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.
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Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.
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Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
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I like to think that I'm extremely method with my tactics on getting work.
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Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .
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Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
