Leandra Medine Quotes
By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?
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'Mature' and 'responsible' are words I don't understand.
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Lists have always implied social order.
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I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
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From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
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By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet.
