Parker Posey Quotes
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
