Regina Spektor Quotes
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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I never let my politics supersede my manners.
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Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
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If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there's something around me protecting me.
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I was in a band when I was in high school, and I was bitten by the performance bug, if anything else.
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Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
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One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.
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Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
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Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day.
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Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
