Lily King Quotes
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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From caring comes courage.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
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I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.
