Alva Noto Quotes
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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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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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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No matter what your age, gender, politics, nationality, social or financial standing, every single person inhabiting the planet Earth has the same reaction to him: 'Holy crap, Buzz Aldrin, you went to the moon!'
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I grew up watching the Williams sisters. I did a lot of research on Serena and kind of stole some things from her.
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I don't know about you, but I fucked a midget. I have secrets.
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Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.
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I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
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I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
