Lupe Ontiveros Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
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We are so proud of 'Unconditional'. I couldn't have been more honest in these songs, and I can't wait to see the impact they have. This record is exactly what it's supposed to be.
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I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.
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You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.
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I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.
