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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If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.
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Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
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I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.
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Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
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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.
