Dinesh D'Souza Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
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The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.
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I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.
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Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.
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'Mean Girls' is awesome.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.
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I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
