Margot Kidder Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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The country is in an extraordinary ferment.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
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Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.
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It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.
