Ariel Dorfman Quotes
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Of course I get hurt.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character-an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets.
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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
