Barbara Demick Quotes
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I have regarded Jesus of Nazareth as one amongst the mighty teachers that the world has had. . . . I shall say to the Hindus that your lives will be incomplete unless you reverently study the teachings of Jesus.
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There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
