Tatiana Maslany Quotes
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
