Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
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We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.
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I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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A lot of comedians are selfish.
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A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
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Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.
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It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. 1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
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I'm very lazy!
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Honor is better than honors.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
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I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.
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The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.
