Haris Pasovic Quotes
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
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If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
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Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.
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I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
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I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant.
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I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.
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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
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In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
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Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.
