Mickey Guyton Quotes
When you see discrimination over and over and over and over again in your life, the more you're living it. I lived it for so long that it eventually breaks you down. I think that's where a lot of us are.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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I don't like being lied to.
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How do I play the princess thing? I don't, really. I don't like talking about it much and find it annoying when people say things like, 'Oh, you're the princess.' One of my best friends jokingly says, 'Hi, Princess,' and I say, 'Shut up.' It is one of the things that bugs me most in the world.
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My family believes in a good script and ultimately everything that is attached to it. I am more interested in a hit film than a good film.
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As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.
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And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
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I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.
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A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.
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At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s.
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Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name.
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When you see discrimination over and over and over and over again in your life, the more you're living it. I lived it for so long that it eventually breaks you down. I think that's where a lot of us are.
