Cherrie Moraga Quotes
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks.
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Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.
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We are a hopeful species. Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken.
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In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
