Mindy Grossman Quotes
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I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.
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I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.
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Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.
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We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.
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The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.
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To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.
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Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said ,if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke.It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.
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Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.
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Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
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I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I am one of them and every time I win or am honoured like this it should be an example to Aboriginal people who may think they have nowhere to go but down. But more importantly I am an Australian and I would like to make all Australians feel proud to be Australian. Ours is a truly multicultural society and should be united as such. I would like to believe that my successes are celebrated by all Australians, bringing our nation together.
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I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.
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I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.
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Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.
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Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of currency. Therefore, just as you say its very logical that an ecosystem like this will collapse, it's very predictable a monetary system like this will collapse, too. And it hasn't finished collapsing, by the way.
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I never want anything to be too predictable.
