Annie Baker Quotes

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Annie Baker

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SilencePeopleTalkingDownPlay

Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

HappinessTogetherMePovertyYou

Of course it's an honour to be fighting at UFC 100, but I don't sit back and think about that. For me, it is only ever about winning.

Michael Bisping

MeWinningThinkFightingBackSit

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Amber Heard

MeAlwaysStandardsGoneAgainst

Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as humans.

Stella Maeve

GoodGoFantasyThroughMetaphor

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Tracy Austin

SisterFeetTallSheOppositesFour

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

Tracy Chapman

BusinessMusicCreativeWhatever

I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet and you're the only one talking. I'm not a fan of that. I'm fine when I get in front of a camera, I don't care. You'll never see me on stage. Not at all.

Travis Fimmel

PeopleMeCareTalkingCameraYou

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Robert Carlyle

HollywoodWholeJustLikeThing

I've had the luxury of working on a lot of our great brands here at Warner Brothers, including a lot of the DC ones. I've also worked on a lot of great brands that were not DC.

Diane Nelson

GreatLuxuryHereWorkingBrothers

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

Desmond Morris

CatsSoldiersDogsArtistsLike

Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

Deepak Chopra

WorkHard WorkAmbitionWorldYou

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

Chip Kidd

BookBusyThinkInformationToo Much

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