Lyndsy Fonseca Quotes
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.
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As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
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A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
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They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together . . . almost together but not quite.
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By electricity we have not been driven out of our senses so much as our senses have been driven out of us. (p. 375)
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Guys need to know when to take charge.
