Daniela Pestova Quotes
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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No, I try not to be a negative thinker.
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
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If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
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Donald Trump is treating the press corps like it's a puppy that you whack on the nose with a newspaper when it pees on the floor.
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
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For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.
