Esme Raji Codell Quotes
Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
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I always thought I was a fairly meek individual.
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Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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Be your own source of strength and comfort. Believe that you are in love, happy, and fulfilled because you started by feeling that way about yourself, alone. Then the power of being together is amplified and you will experience the kind of joy that you can't begin to imagine. It starts within you and no one else.
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Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.
