Anna Torv Quotes
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I just love dancing.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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I hate birthdays.
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Science is not finished until it is communicated.
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The great sixteenth century divorce between art and science came with accelerated calculators. (p. 205)
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The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.
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I was a huge fan of Lance Armstrong. The only way that they caught him using doping was through a criminal investigation where they got all of his teammates who did the exact same thing that he did and got away with it to rat him out in exchange for their own immunity. The byproduct of that was that he had passed 500 anti-doping controls clean. So I'm going, "Wait, wait, wait. It's not, 'What's wrong with Lance Armstrong?' What's wrong with this system that was thoroughly ineffective to catch someone cheating for the last 15 years?"
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Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
