Ann Nocenti Quotes

There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japanese, Japantown shrunk down to just a couple tourist blocks.

Ann Nocenti

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I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

John Cusack

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There's no way you can go home and learn lines, because you need to go home and sleep. So I've figured out systems. I order two lunches so I can eat dinner before I leave work, so when I get home, I can just go to bed.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

Rob Thomas

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It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

Rita Rudner

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I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Romola Garai

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Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

Mohsin Hamid

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Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.

Monica Johnson

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Even on the red carpet, French celebrities keep it minimal. Think of Charlotte Gainsbourg - the look can be quite undone.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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There's nothing I've ever worked on that beat 'Game of Thrones' - that's a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.

Jason Momoa

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The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.

Dick Van Dyke

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Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Coolio

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I was real good at music and real bad at everything else.

Bruce Springsteen

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