Quinn Norton Quotes
Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.
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Many of the big decisions over progression, promotion and future career trajectory are taken when people are in their late twenties and thirties, putting women at a huge disadvantage because this is the very time they are most likely to be having a break to have children.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.
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Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.
