Carmen Boullosa Quotes
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.
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Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.
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Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.
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Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
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With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.
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I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories.
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It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.
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The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.
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Somehow, it soon seemed taken for granted by all three of them that the trip was a settled thing; and the Rat, though still unconvinced in his mind, allowed his good-nature to over-ride his personal objections.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.
