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 didn't see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in 'Akeelah and The Bee.' That film made me realize that I wasn't an alien.
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My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.
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If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.
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Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
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I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
