Marie Brennan Quotes
I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.
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Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
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Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
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If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
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I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.
