Moon Unit Zappa Quotes
It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.
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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I seem to be getting more calls from people who've been arrested for simple possession.
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It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
