Norio Ohga Quotes
The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.
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Surplus value is exactly equal to surplus labour; the increase of the one is exactly measured by the diminution of necessary labour.
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Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
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The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
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My work is anti-natureThe four-story mountainYou will not think form, space, line, contourJust a suggestion of nature gives weightlight and heavylight like a featheryou get light enough and you levitate
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
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Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.
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If I, as a liberal, didn't speak out against those who would squelch the free speech of conservatives, I wouldn't deserve to call myself a liberal.
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The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.
