Laura Anne Gilman Quotes
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I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.
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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.
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What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.
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Pop culture is like our subconscious.
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As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
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I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.
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I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him.
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My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
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No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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Film is anti-language.
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To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.
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And still, the more he learned, the more he became aware that he did not know.
