Mariam Naficy Quotes
Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
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'Aye, build it on these banks,' the monarch said,'That when the autumn winds have swept the sea,They may come hither with their falling rains,A voice of mighty weeping o'er her grave.'
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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If literature (realistic) did really resemble life, it would be interminable, dreary, commonplace eating and dressing, buttoning, with here and there a patch of vividness. Life is composed of exquisite moments and the rest is shadows of them.
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So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen for herself how eager they were to get her out of their sight.
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Everyone breeds success off each other.
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A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!
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Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.
