Annalee Newitz Quotes
'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
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For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.
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Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
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A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.
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I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.
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'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.
