Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.
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The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
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I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.
