Alberto Manguel Quotes

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Alberto Manguel

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When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

Jesse Eisenberg

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I was in heaven when I saw Taraji P. Henson wearing Moschino!

Jeremy Scott

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My wife and I were worried, when we had our firstborn, about how he was going to think of himself in a mostly white neighborhood. Particularly Asian men, I feel, we suffer more than Asian women, because we're told we're not worth anything in general.

John Cho

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'Batman Returns' was a huge movie and one of my favorites growing up. It's incredible.

Robin Lord Taylor

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There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

Marvin Hamlisch

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The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Lucy Powell

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The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

Joseph Brodsky

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Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

Debbie Ford

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I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

Brad Garrett

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I'm pretty good with talking to girls if I have an introduction, but I'm the worst at trying to go pick up a girl. I'm really bad at breaking the ice. It's awkward!

Bryan Greenberg

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I'm interested in seeing artists whom I respect who are very focused on the Black Lives Matter moment, bringing that into storytelling in a way that really amplifies the beauty and the humanity of people of color, and does it without having to wave a big sign that says, 'This is what we're doing.'

Ava DuVernay

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Creative collaboration is awesome.

Alicia Silverstone

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