Vanessa Kirby Quotes
You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I feel that after working a long time, I’ve really learned how to do what I do. I enjoy it. I don’t think there’s anything more satisfying than turning out a good stanza or a good piece of prose. And when you’re satisfied enough, you want to show it to other people. That’s called publication.
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'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is going to wreck you. This is the best I've ever seen her, and I've seen everything she's ever done. I like the story, and I think it's a great alternative to the big summer popcorn blockbusters.
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Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
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I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.
