Ted Naifeh Quotes
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.
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I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.
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The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
