Scarlett Johansson Quotes
People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.
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I grew up in Haughton, Louisiana. I go to my white grandparents' house, and then I cross the railroad tracks and hang out with my black grandma. We have English teachers on my white side. My grandpa is a principal. And then you go to the other side, and people have been in jail.
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See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'
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The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.
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Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
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I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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People are fed up - and I think quite rightfully so. But what are they proposing as an alternative to just being upset or feeling disillusioned or abandoned? That kind of protest movement really needs to happen on a much bigger scale, but there needs to be a clearer message.
