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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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 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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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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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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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
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Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize.. ..It is essentially practical and passionate.
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I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.
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I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.
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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.
