Arlene J. Chai Quotes
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
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Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
