Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
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I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
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Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
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But there's a difference, isn't there? Between saying goodbye and death.
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
