Kat Dahlia Quotes
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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There are still great artists in the country format.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.
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I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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I come from a football family which has really helped.
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Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
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I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
