Dorothy Allison Quotes
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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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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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.
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'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.
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I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!
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The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.
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The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
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The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
