Marge Simon Quotes
They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.
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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
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The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
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They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.
