Antonya Nelson Quotes
I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Islam means peace.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
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Coffee is my water now.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.
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If you get typecast, it's up to you to break that. Since I started real young, getting roles where they would ask me to take my clothes off, I would get those types of scripts over and over. The fact that I'm still here and working... I don't know if it's so much because of my performances or something else.
Nastassja Kinski -
People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
