Carmen Boullosa Quotes
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
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If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.
