Miep Gies Quotes
I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
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You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence.
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I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
