Alicia Garza Quotes
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
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As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
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And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.
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The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.
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'The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...'
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I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.
