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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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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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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I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.
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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
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Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.
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We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment. It's just the idea that we're so wasteful. I think a lot of self - identity and inner - personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
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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.
