Ariana Reines Quotes
Maybe what made me cry in class was how tired I was and how sad and hard it is, and how rare, to undertake an act that's truly free, and not just a response to a confused surge of drives and fears.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.
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I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
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I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
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Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
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Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.
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Maybe what made me cry in class was how tired I was and how sad and hard it is, and how rare, to undertake an act that's truly free, and not just a response to a confused surge of drives and fears.
