Naomi Alderman Quotes

I feel powerful when I'm onstage talking to an audience. I like communicating; it feels like my calling in the world. Knowing what you're meant to be doing with your life is pretty bloody powerful.

Naomi Alderman

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When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

John Barrowman

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I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

Megan Fox

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'Clocked' means someone sees you for being transgender.

Jeffrey Tambor

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You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

John Wilson

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More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound.

Stephen Gaghan

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The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they're so bigoted, they're just such reprobates that we can't afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what's happening.

Rush Limbaugh

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I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

Michael Schur

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I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

Mitt Romney

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Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

Loretta Lynch

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I think Latin guys are really sexy. They generally fit into that whole tall, dark, and handsome thing.

Julia Stiles

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Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They'll come in, they'll make half a joke, and then they're like, 'OK, gotta go to school,' or 'I'm going to my room.' And then you never see them again.

Jason Jones

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Democrats will come together as we should to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump and elect our party's nominee.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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