Ann Nocenti Quotes
I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Religion was best understood when least talked of.
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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
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Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.
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Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
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As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.
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I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.
