Raul Ruiz Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.'
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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I'm a physician first and foremost. I will always be a physician.
