Nicanor Parra (Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval) Quotes
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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I'm very proud of my breasts, as every woman should be. It's not cellular obesity. It's womanliness.
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To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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One should always be a little improbable.
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I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.
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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!
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This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.
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Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.
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I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
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Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
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A poem should improve on the blank page.
