Aaron McGruder Quotes
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
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I'm not trying to say I accomplished nothing, I'm just trying to say that at this point in my life, I don't want to look at what I've accomplished and hold it like it's my trophy. I've got so much more to do; I don't want to put that gold medal around my neck yet. When I accomplish ten times what I've accomplished already, I'll start thinking about that. But a better way to put it is I kind of forget about it. I do it and I forget about it. And I just work.
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In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
