Andre Aciman Quotes
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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It's hard not to love everything Prada does.
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Im very nurturing.
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I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
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I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.
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I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
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Success is a great healer.
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Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
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Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
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The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
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Rituals are magical.
