Barbara Mikulski Quotes
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.
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The agency is who it is because of many, many, many chapters that needed to happen.
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VR should be more emotionally involving, but that doesn't happen automatically by just taking a VR camera and sticking it onto what would be a traditionally blocked scene for 2D.
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I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.
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I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.
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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
