Antonia Fraser Quotes
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.
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Anyone can replicate a product. There are lots of brilliant minds out there that know how to code, but there's unique DNA to a brand. You cannot have a brand without people. That is the most important asset you will ever have.
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
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Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.
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People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
