Cecily McMillan Quotes
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.
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At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
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You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
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I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.
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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
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What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
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Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.
