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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Lucasfilm called me out of the blue, and I almost hung up because I thought it was a practical joke. This was right before 'Revenge Of The Sith' came out. Here you are, a big 'Star Wars' fan, talking about 'Star Wars' all the time, and you have your master replica lightsaber, and then you get a call from Lucasfilm for a job?
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
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Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not allow us to develop the full range of our relations. Therefore, we will naturally strive to sign this treaty.
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Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
