Louise Erdrich Quotes
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
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You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.
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My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
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What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
