Dante Alighieri Quotes
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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My education was very tough.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
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All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.
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Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
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I made my own house be my gallows.
