Ann Leckie Quotes
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If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
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I've always had great faith in people.
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I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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You can only do so much theatre.
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You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
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If you'd stop being a Metallica fan because I won't give you my music for free, then fuck you. I don't want you to be a Metallica fan.
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Ah, you come to see the others but rarely to see me.
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Yes, he is intelligent. But we must be more intelligent. We must be so intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all.
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I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.
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History is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I have no intention of ever working with the Spice girls again.
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Relationships teach you what you do and don't want, what you can and can't put up with, what you do and don't deserve.
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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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Her respectful tone sounded almost sincere.
