Andrea Hirata Quotes
I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.
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It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
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I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
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'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.
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I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
