Adrian G. Duplantier Quotes
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
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If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
