Anna Meredith Quotes
I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
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It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere.
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You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.
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To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.
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I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
