Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking about what happens if that happens.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.
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When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
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The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' is not a book or show advocating enslaving women or creating a theocracy. It's not glorifying that. It's talking about what happens if that happens.
