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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It costs a lot of money to deliver newsprint. It's so much easier to do it through the air, Internet, radio, television. The second easiest thing is to do it through the mail. But when you have to take something heavy and put it on someone's doorstep, that costs a lot of money.
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UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership.
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I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.
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I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
