Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
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When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
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Most meteorological research is funded by the federal government. And boy, if you want to get federal funding, you better not come out and say human-induced global warming is a hoax because you stand the chance of not getting funded.
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What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'
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Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.
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When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
