Marc Forster Quotes
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
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I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.
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Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.
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I don't know why we're losing. We'll get it right. We've just got to keep working.
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We can find people on the internet who agree with our ideas, no matter how crazy. Democracies do not work if we are not operating on some level based on reason and fact and logic - and not just passion. We're going to have to find ways to push back on propaganda and listen to those we don't agree with.
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What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.
