Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
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It’s a lot easier to be mean than to be nice. So mean people, on top of being jerks, are also lazy and uninventive.
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I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.
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I just want to be a spokesperson for the people.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.
