Anna Godbersen Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
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I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.
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Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.
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Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.
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All really interesting girls invent themselves.
