Adrienne Shelly Quotes
I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Parenting is tough.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.
