Robin LaFevers Quotes
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
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I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
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Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is
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Mama was a looker,Lord, how she shined.Papa was a good'n,But the jealous kind.Papa loved Mama;Mama loved men.Mama's in the graveyard;Papa's in the pen.
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Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.
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I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.
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Dear brothers and sisters, I have often thought of how the Church may render more clear her mission to be a witness to mercy; and we have to make this journey. It is a journey which begins with spiritual conversion. Therefore, I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy.
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Grace and mercy are never deserved.
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The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
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Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
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This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
