Annie Ilonzeh Quotes
I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I would love to be a role model.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I have been fighting over commas all my life.
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Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.
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I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.
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You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
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I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.
