Andre Naffis-Sahely Quotes
One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
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I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
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That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.
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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.
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As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.
