Mia Maestro Quotes
When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
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Jay Hov about to change my name to Jay Pesobut in a meantime called me William H thoughon a platinum Yamaha got the engine gunningthrowing it up like liquor on an empty stomach.
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At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.
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Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
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I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
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Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
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There is surprisingly low penetration still of synthetic rubber gloves in the medical field. People are allergic to natural rubber, but the industry has been slow to switch to synthetic gloves.
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I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
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I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do.
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I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.
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I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.
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After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it.
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It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
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It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.
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So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
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I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.
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When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.
