Randi Weingarten Quotes
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
