Anna Lappe Quotes
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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Don Conroy died with exemplary courage, as one would expect. He never complained about pain or whimpered or cried out. His death was stoical and quiet. He never quit fighting, never surrendered, and never gave up. He died like a king. He died like The Great Santini. I thank you with all my heart.
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At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.
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Art without heart is craft.
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Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else.
