Annie Ilonzeh Quotes
I know stories of Pac, but I was really, really young when he passed. The fact that he was such a thespian, and so passionate about his craft, was shocking to me in a way.
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Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
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'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.
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The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.
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I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.
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But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.
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Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
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My favorite decade probably the '60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn't shown up, so people hadn't started dying. It was incredibly upbeat, and we almost did change the world. I guess that was the best one.
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I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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I know stories of Pac, but I was really, really young when he passed. The fact that he was such a thespian, and so passionate about his craft, was shocking to me in a way.
