Asne Seierstad Quotes
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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To become 'ideologists of the working class' (Lenin), 'organic intellectuals' of the proletariat (Gramsci), intellectuals have to carry out a radical revolution in their ideas: a long, painful and difficult re-education. An endless external and internal struggle.
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
