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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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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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
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The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!
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For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.
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Westerners do not understand that when it comes to the Muslim world, even the most “moderate” of Muslims, if they are religious, all believe in the coming of the Mahdi and the establishment of the Caliphate to rule the entire Globe by changing world laws to adapt the Islamic Sharia. The coming of the Mahdi to religious Muslims is as holy of a belief as the coming of Messiah is to Christians and Jews.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!
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Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
