Lena Dunham Quotes
I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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I think 'She Drives Me Crazy' is hilarious and good.
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Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.
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If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.
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Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
