Margaret Qualley Quotes
When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It's very demeaning to step down the ladder once in a while.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are 'You're a great actor, good work,' and move on. A very good interaction could be when they say 'You were awesome on 'The West Wing,' 'Loved 'In Her Shoes,' great movie,' 'What Women Want,' good job dude.'
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Timing in life is everything.
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A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
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I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
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When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.
