I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.
Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?
. . . a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change. . . . . what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.
. . . if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. . . . The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major. . . it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate. . . [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential. . . it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.
From the moment we are born, we begin to die.
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut. "
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.