Philippa Boyens Quotes

It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.

Philippa Boyens

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I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.

Jim Otto

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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Joan Chen

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I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

John C. Reilly

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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Robert Smithson

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I live in New York City, and one day many years ago I was with a poet, Gregory Corso, walking through Greenwich Village. He pointed to a doorway in an alley that he said led to a tunnel under Manhattan, a tunnel he'd use to run from the cops. I started learning about old Prohibition-era speakeasy tunnels under the city, for running whiskey.

Ann Nocenti

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We value feeling over knowing, because you can't prove something that hasn't been done before.

Angela Ahrendts

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Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics?

Stephan Pastis

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Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

Joshua Roman

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It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.

Diana Gabaldon

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I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all.

Colin Farrell

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For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

Anohni

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