Yuri Kochiyama Quotes
I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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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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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Inspiration comes from a clear mind. Right straight through. We have nothing to do with it.
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If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
