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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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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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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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
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A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.
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Just reskinning games with our intellectual property is not an appealing prospect for opportunity. That isn't something that creates long-term value for shareholders.
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.
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Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.
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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.
