Mamie Van Doren Quotes
My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Certainly there is no way to direct the effects of monetary policy at a single class of assets while leaving other financial markets and the broader economy untouched. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
