Anne Roiphe Quotes
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.
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You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
