Annalee Newitz Quotes
At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.
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I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
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Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
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We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
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Sometimes the beauty is easy.Sometimes you don't have to try at all.Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us--which is really just love for ourselves.
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At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.
