Andrea Hirata Quotes

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

Andrea Hirata

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I'm an activist.

Michael Horse

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When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Stone Gossard

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For me personally, my favourite part of performing is just going in the crowd and doing crazy things that they never expected to see. Challenging myself to do new things that I never expected to do. That's the biggest thing for me.

Tory Lanez

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Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Tommy Lee Jones

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The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.

Mike DeWine

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I think it's nice when you come into the room and the director has a plan, a vision of exactly what he or she wants the piece to be. Because when that happens, then you feel safe. You feel safe to make choices and to do something big and just fly because there's a structure around you.

Joshua Henry

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I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

Don Dokken

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Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV.

Tim Pigott-Smith

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When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

Tim Blake Nelson

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There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

Noah Baumbach

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I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn't think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me.

Noah Wyle

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