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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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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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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The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
