Rita Moreno Quotes
You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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I would say I am an amateur guitarist.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.
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Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
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Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.
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It's just really exciting to have the ball in my hands. Not just on defense but to make plays on special teams also.
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You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
