Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.
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I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
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I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
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I don't know if it's a lost art, because I don't know if enough guys ever did it to make it an art.
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
