Edward James Olmos Quotes
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.
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I am very much a Republican.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
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I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.
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I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.
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The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
