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 still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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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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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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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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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.
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Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
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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.
