Adam Garfinkle Quotes
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
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It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
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I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.
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Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
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When the Bond films started, people didn't travel quite as much as they do now; a lot of people had never been outside of their own country, and certainly sitting in the cinema and seeing these exotic locations - I mean, that movie did great things for India, for tourism. They were very wise to allow us to film there.
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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
