Majel Barrett Quotes
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
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Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.
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Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?
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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
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The gentlest and most insidious way we are dominated by the body politic is by the official versions of the good life that are implicit in advertising and propaganda. Happiness is a new car, a color TV-fill in the gap with your own 'freely chosen' artificially stimulated desire.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
