Georgia Salpa Quotes
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
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We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.
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We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.
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I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
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I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.
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Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
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We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.
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People are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential -the healthy, the fit and the powerful. The consequences of this fact, which goes under the name of sexual selection, are bizarre in the extreme.
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Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort.
