Fiona Dourif Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush (news - web sites) because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.
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I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.
