Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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I'm not the only one in the studio a lot of times, so I have my boys in there and they'll tell me and give me their suggestions and what they think.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
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Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
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My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
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You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.
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I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's going to happen is we're going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I'm looking forward to things I can't even imagine yet.
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We are all concerned at the amount of stress we are putting on our players. It is a bigger issue and I am not competent to know what the solution is.
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Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
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It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.
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I don't like wars. Any wars.
