E. Lockhart Quotes
My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I am turning into the person I knew I would.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
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My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
