Ariel Dorfman Quotes
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Being evil is easy.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Writers are so important.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.
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Yoga is how I got sober.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.
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Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
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The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.
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This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
