Annalee Newitz Quotes
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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In many ways I'm similar to Barack Obama, who also has a strange name but was raised by a white American mother. His background is far more complicated than his name would suggest. Furthermore, the fact that I was a child during the hostage crisis has caused me to equate being Iranian with being alienated.
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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
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I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.
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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
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In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.
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A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
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Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
