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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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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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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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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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'm a writer, not a genre.
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
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My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
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Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.
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Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.
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I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.
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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.
