Lorene Scafaria Quotes
Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.
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You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.
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War is just one more big government program.
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Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
