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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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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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
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They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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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.
