Annalee Newitz Quotes
To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
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I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.
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I was never part of the crowd.
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.
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As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.
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To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.
