Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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Alle zweckmäßigen Lebenserscheinungen wie ihre Zweckmäßigkeit überhaupt sind letzten Endes zweckmäßig nicht für das Leben, sondern für den Ausdruck seines Wesens, für die Darstellung seiner Bedeutung.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I grew up in a progressive household with a family that believed in equality for all, and that leaves its mark on you. In the past, I planned to go into politics and never considered Wall Street as an option.
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One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.
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Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.
