Michelle Dean Quotes

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

Michelle Dean

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Dream projects are always a funny thing to label. I guess just more exciting scripts in my inbox. Maybe an exciting script about John Lennon.

Andrew Gower

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I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel like Karen takes on so much more weight because the show was on for eight seasons, and it was such a popular show. But you have to move on to telling another story in a different world.

Megan Mullally

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We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

John Naisbitt

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The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

John Mason Brown

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Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

Anita Pallenberg

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When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

Ann Nocenti

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When I'm not shooting, I like to spend time with friends and family.

Amy Jackson

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I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

Steve Daines

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'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be by general readers - it was oriented more toward managers - or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow.

Tom Rath

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By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

Rumaan Alam

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I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

Lou Barlow

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I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.

Jon Favreau

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