Annalee Newitz Quotes
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I'm not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.
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I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
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In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
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We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
