Tami Hoag Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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I do just as much world-building in a short story as I do for a novel.
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China in particular is an absolutely fascinating place to be. Culturally and politically and economically it's becoming more and more relevant. If you look at how China is perceived in different parts of the world, you can recognize it's very dynamic. It's also challenging what it thinks of itself.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
