J. Tillman Quotes
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I have always loathed working out.
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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I don’t think the locker room has changed all that much
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
