Annie Lennox Quotes
Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
Quotes to Explore
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.
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I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.
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I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
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Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
