Ken Auletta Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'
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I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.
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When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical would just be gone.
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
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I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
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My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.
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I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.
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I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.
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Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
