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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: mexican
Birth: August 15, 1963

Topics

Speak Name Person Become Celebrity

In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?

Joanna Lumley

Children Day You Find Why Eat

I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

Jenna Wortham

Book Sketch Partial

My style has stayed pretty consistent over the years. I always wear what I like and what is appropriate for the occasion.

Melania Trump

Style Always Over Years Pretty Wear

When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.

Sofia Vassilieva

Me Hair Long Growing First Out

I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.

Robert Zemeckis

Family Mom Window World Night Free

It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.

Lukas Forchhammer

Song You Top See Your Satisfying

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Louise Erdrich

Death Talking Traveled Discouraged

Have a definite opinion.

William Safire

Opinion Definite

My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.

SZA

Fun Mom Black Television Years He

Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality.

Peter Tosh

Equality Drive Down Oppression Sound

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

Sharon Salzberg

Family Think Others Praise Depend

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

Shelley Berman

Work Love Looking Acting First