Annalee Newitz Quotes
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
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Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.
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I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
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At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.
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My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.
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When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
