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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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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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You seldom hear any young artists in country music.
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We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.
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To be human is to be suspended between danger and opportunity. ...The challenge of life is to choose wisely, from the enormous number of possible dangers, what's worth worrying about. It is also about choosing, from all the opportunities... always in the face of incomplete knowledge of the consequences.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
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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.
