Celia Fremlin Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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If I'm not prepared, I don't feel confident. It's something that you can have control of. You deserve what it is you're going after as long as you've done the work that needs to be done to prepare for it. You can't just have your hand out!
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There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.
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Man can’t live by truth alone, you know, and children even less so.
