Ariel Dorfman Quotes
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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I'd love to be a hit in Germany. I'm working on trying to get a gig as David Hasselhoff's opening act.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.
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As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or says no to something you're suggesting, then it's very clear that they're putting the onus on you, because they're not comfortable with it themselves.
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There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
