Maury Yeston Quotes
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.
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There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
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The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.
