Linda Cardellini Quotes
One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.
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My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
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A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
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Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.
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Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
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One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.
