Achy Obejas Quotes
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
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You know when I fight, I'm going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.
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Space is very unforgiving business.
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There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
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What hath night to do with sleep?
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I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
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You get high hopes and they let you down.
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. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
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Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
