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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
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I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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I do not believe on giving amnesty.
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I want to dominate the man's world.
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The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
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By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
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We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.
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I worked with a lot of leading ladies: Bebe Neuwirth, Anne Rankin, Bernadette Peters, Liza Minnelli. They're all phenomenal talents.
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I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?
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Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
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For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
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So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.
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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
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I hope women who wear my perfume will have men all over them.
