Alissa Quart Quotes

I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.

Alissa Quart

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GoodDeathThinkGoOppressionSee

The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.

Jessica St. Clair

LifeFriendTruthStartGameYou

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

Jeremy Rifkin

MovingStopSightBoundariesOut

I'm a pretty open book, so not being out publicly felt inauthentic. Hopefully we can get to a point where your personal life isn't anybody else's business, but until then, it's less about people having to know about your sexuality than standing up for what's right and fighting for equality.

Megan Rapinoe

LifeBusinessEqualityPeopleBook

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

Meghan O'Rourke

GriefChaosLossTelevisionNever

I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.

John Mackey

GameLearnYouGamesMoreComplex

I enjoy making the decisions.

Stuart Pearce

DecisionsEnjoyMaking

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

Tony Judt

HopeBestConsequencesPerfectMore

Maybe I'm a control freak.

Robin Wright

ControlFreakMaybeControl Freak

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.

Mathieu Amalric

FunnyGoodFunSayingBelieveYou

Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

Luis Alberto Urrea

BusinessJobWritingThingsSausage

It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

Dolores O'Riordan

DoingHardEveryoneDifferentJust

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.

Doug Liman

ProcessMove OnKnowRightFault

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