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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It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.
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I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition.
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One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
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Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
