Natasha Trethewey Quotes
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector.
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
