Barbie Ferreira Quotes
The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?
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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
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Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.
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All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.
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Maybe my life isn't all that interesting but at least I'm busy. Busy doesn't mean happy. I know that. But at least I'm not bored. Being bored is the worst.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.
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If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.
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The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.
