Antonya Nelson Quotes
I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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Growing up, one of the shows that the entire family ate dinner at the table was 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.' That was one of the greatest television shows ever, and then I'm a fan of 'Firefly.'
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.
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I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.
