Baratunde Thurston Quotes
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life.
