Andrea Hirata Quotes
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.
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Most of the experts agree that strategy will have to become more "adaptive", meaning that strategies will change faster based on information from people on the corporation's front lines - dealing with customers, fending off competitors. This won't represent a new revolution, but rather the continued speeding up of the one that's been going on. Everything will move faster, and competitive advantage disappear more quickly than ever.
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I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium, B complex, vitamin C.
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I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It's harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you're lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you're sore the next week. Its stress release.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
