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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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.
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I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.
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I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
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Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
