Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.
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The important thing is to learn through experience. The more you do the more you learn. I don't think anyone can teach acting from a podium.
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My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
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People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.
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Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
