Mako Quotes
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
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The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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As for 'cultural genocide', if there's any going on these days, it's the genocide of the Britannic inheritance - in North America, in the Antipodes, in Blair's Britain.
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Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
