Natalia Kills Quotes
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
