Mirai Nagasu Quotes
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
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Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.
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Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along.
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People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
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Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.
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Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just a bit more time.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I have a hyper personality.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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I'm not a fadeaway type of person; I don't have that type of personality.
