She Quotes
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With 'Girls,' Marnie was a slow burn; she shifted over time. With 'Get Out,' I was suddenly faced with the pressure that, like, I need an audience to know Rose deeply within 15 minutes, within a couple scenes. And that's not something I've ever done before.
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The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.
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My best party friend...? Fifi Brown. And Poppy Delevingne. She's so fun and so inclusive - she really is the glue.
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Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.
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I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died.
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My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
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Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.
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'I thought you were the best,' she chided. 'Fathers always seem that way,' he said dryly. 'But no. With bow or knife I am superb. But with the sword? only excellent.' 'And so modest. Is there anything at which you do not excel?'
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He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.
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My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
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If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.
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I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.
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From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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I am a huge Idina Menzel fan. She's incredible.
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She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
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He couldn't believe that his last words on Earth would be "she's my rocket ship
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My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.
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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
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She wouldn't shake my hand! I said 'C'mon, be a gentleman'.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
