Carsten Jensen Quotes
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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A Moment's Halt - a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste - And Lo! - the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from - Oh, make haste!
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.
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Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!
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The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
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With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
