Margaret Atwood Quotes
A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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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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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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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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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
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One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her six children to take to the African-American church that was in the town that we lived in Springfield, Missouri. And we would go to the church, and we would sit in the back row, and we would listen to all of the spirituals in the hymns.
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No one is confused about what a Democrat is in a presidential election. In every election other than a presidential election, our voters are confused. We've given out too many different messages.
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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters.
