Mara Wilson Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.
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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
