Angourie Rice Quotes
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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I never think people are too careful with me.
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We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
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And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?
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One of the things I do struggle with is being in the present.
