Lupe Ontiveros Quotes
I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.
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I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.
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Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.
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I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
