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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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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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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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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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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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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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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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
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He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.
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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.
