Sergio Aragones Quotes
I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I am a Zionist.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
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Space has always been confusing to politics.
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I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
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Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
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I always feel I have to take a stand,And there's always someone on handTo hate me for standing there.I always feel I have to open my mouth,And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
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That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.
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Whenever I was trying to get over a boy, I would write him a really long, wrought letter - but never mail it.
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'
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When I'm designing, I'm thinking about what it would be like to wear that piece.
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I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
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Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it's just about as hard to do business there as it is in China.
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.
