Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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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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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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There is no one true church.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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I'm very religious.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
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You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
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LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
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I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
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For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
