Alicia Ostriker Quotes
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Excess is excrement.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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If there are any who believe that immigrants to this country, most of whom have already become British citizens, could be forcibly deported because they are coloured people...then that I must repudiate, absolutely and completely.
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Every man and every woman is a star.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will
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Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.
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My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.
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I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
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Thursday night football should be illegal.
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Today in America, the middle class is disappearing.
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We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.
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Critics? I love every bone in their heads.
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Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.
