Ann Nocenti Quotes
I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
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We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?
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Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.
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I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.
