Marguerite Young Quotes
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I never wanted my kids to feel I was more interested in anything I was doing than I was in them.
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.
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Performance is one thing which has to be good because you're an actor.
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
