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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The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
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My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.
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Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.
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I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.
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Even in the 1980s your average young archaeologist would have had difficulty raising capital for a house. I knew this because it’s one of the things archaeologists will tell you about, at length, at the slightest provocation.
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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.
