Peter Sotos Quotes
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.
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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.
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I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, 'God moments,' are what I call them, where someone calls the office and says, 'Would Ricky be interested in doing this?'
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.
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I can cook anything.
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I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.
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You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
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I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.
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I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
