Raine Maida Quotes
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.
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Desiring is a part of dreaming.
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There have been times in my life when I have felt like I can't go out without my makeup on. But now I just put on some dark glasses so people can't see if I look rough!
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'During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,' he said, 'I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.'
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
