Margo Lanagan Quotes
It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.
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There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.
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Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
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It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
