Kina Grannis Quotes
Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
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Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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Sex is energy.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
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I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
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I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.
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I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.
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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
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Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.
