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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People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
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I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.
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It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.
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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.
