Vanessa Kirby Quotes
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
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Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.
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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.
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It will spell out that we are approaching the end of the final opportunity that Saddam Hussein was given to completely disarm in substance as well as process.
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The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised.
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I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.
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My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.
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I've been told that I have no filter.