William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.
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The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
