Alanis Obomsawin Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.
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Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.
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I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
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I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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The need for a national Employment Non-Discrimination Act a critical part of the LGBT community's struggle for equality.
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I write my columns pretty carefully.
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Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.
