Esme Raji Codell Quotes
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
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For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
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There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
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I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
