Maryann Simko (Taisha Abelar) Quotes
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
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It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.
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Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there's a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor's core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required.
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No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.
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A common argument from the mouths of capitalist spokespeople, in the ideological struggle against socialism, is that socialism, or the period of building socialism into which we have entered, is characterized by the abolition of the individual for the sake of the state.
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Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
