Roberto Alomar Quotes
Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
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Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing 'Wonder Woman 2,' I thought, 'Well, these are so intense, making these movies. It's a lot to think about doing more.' But then I had an epiphany, and I thought, 'Oh, it's not more - it's better.'
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I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!
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When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
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One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.
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Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
