Sonita Alizadeh Quotes
It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
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It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.
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She and I are personal friends, but as it relates to the game itself, she can see like I can see. She can tell what our strengths and weaknesses are just like I can with them, but I'm not necessarily worried about that. We just have to go out and play.
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I know them by their rave names, Deacon and Sushi. They're both total sweethearts, they loved to party, loved the rave scene.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.
