Adriana Barraza Quotes
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Islam is about finding your own space.
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.
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Throughout history new and correct ideas have often failed at the outset to win recognition from the majority of people and have to develop by twists and turns in struggle. Often correct and good things have first been regarded not as fragrant flowers but poisonous weeds.
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.
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A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.
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One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot.
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When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
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I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.
