Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. (5 November 1958)
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.
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You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.
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Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. (5 November 1958)
