Nan Fairbrother Quotes
Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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You’re supposed to get more conservative in your tastes as you get older, but I tend to go the other way. I listen to stuff that’s two steps away from white noise. But I must admit that I’ve been so busy with Napalm and personal things in recent years that I’ve not dug down into what’s going on. I’m a little disconnected at the minute but it’s not through choice, it’s through circumstance. Generally speaking, anything that’s nasty, horrible and confrontational is my bag.
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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.
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It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.
