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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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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I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
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If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
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I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian.
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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.
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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
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Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
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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.
