Demian Bichir Quotes
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.
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Everybody understands, for whatever reason, what it's like to not fit in, or not do it right, or not be perfect.
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I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.
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It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.
