Ann Nocenti Quotes

There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.

Ann Nocenti

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Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

Jesmyn Ward

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Stand-up is a weird animal. There are people who really want to know what you think about things, your opinion on life. But then there are people who think you're just that beautician in 'Legally Blonde,' who doesn't have opinions on anything. Or that I'm Stifler's mom and hot for it all the time.

Jennifer Coolidge

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I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

Melinda Gates

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The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Robert Reich

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I'm very married.

Max Greenfield

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I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Steve Buscemi

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I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

Stephen McCauley

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I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

Sloane Crosley

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I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

Mary Ellen Mark

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There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden.

Michael T. Flynn

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I had never really seen 'Agent Carter' before I got the part.

Lotte Verbeek

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There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

Lleyton Hewitt

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