Tami Hoag Quotes
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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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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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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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.
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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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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.
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In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
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I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.
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Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
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The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
