Chino XL (Derek Keith Barbosa) Quotes
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.
