Andrea Hirata Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I hope someday to see California literature become a part of mainstream American literature, and I hope to be part of that process.
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Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
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It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.
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I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
