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I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me. Ariel Dorfman
Me Sense Latino Mixed South North Spanish English Mongrel Things Jewish
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. Arthur Erickson
Building North North America America Specialization Professions Nowhere Deeply
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. Arthur Erickson
Alone Consumption Mass Industry Line Goal Dominated North North America America Production Standardization Assembly Assembly Line
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.' Asif Kapadia
Art Director Wife Sheep Thief Student Had She North Victoria Far Film Designed
I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, 'Far North,' and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix. Asif Kapadia
Time Partner Ran He Ferrari North Michelle Grand Grand Prix Far Worked Jean Film Her Last British VIP
It is rare for an artist to get acceptance by the north as well as the south audiences, and I have thankfully managed that. Asin
Acceptance Rare Well Audiences South North Get Thankfully Artist
Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India. Baba Kalyani
Buy Would India Prior North North America America Any Europe Company Hardly
We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else. Barbara Demick
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North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years. Barbara Demick
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call. Barbara Demick
You Phone Post Few Telephone Phone Call Post Office Had Make Call Koreans Go North Office Used Ever
For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror. Barbara Demick
Mirror Endeavor Earnest Interview Back Seeing Through Like Korean Reflected North North Korean
Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse. Barbara Demick
Government Best World Result Crime Country Live Difficult Think Everybody Everybody Else Else Broadcast Worse Locked Foreign Koreans North Listen May Much Serious Lives
North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting. Barbara Demick
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin. Barbara Demick
Old Black Power Ruin Collapse Collapsed Stations Had Cheap Propped Faded Ally Economy Inefficient Korea Up North North Korea Soviet Soviet Union Oil Which Fuel Communist Union Early Early 1990s
The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Barbara Demick
Life Slower Korea North North Korea
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days. Barbara Demick
Broken Better Seen Country Worn Everything Out Had Days Korea North North Korea Nearly
The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color. Barbara Demick
Beautiful Drained Color Could Said Korean North America North Korean Northwest Substantially Pacific Places Landscape Resemble
North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world. Barbara Demick
World Country Out Developed Developed Country Developed World Korea Fallen North North Korea
In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme. Barbara Demick
Needs Energy Gave States Weapons Korea Up Offered North North Korea Energy Needs Help United United States Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Programme
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun. Barbara Demick
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. Barry Commoner
Food World Wealth Space Doctors Earth Machines Would Above Through Pole Most Opposite Encompass North North Pole Poor View Teachers Productive Engineers
I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families. Barry Larkin
Youth Remember Other Cincinnati Stay Able Some Staying Pretty Host Tournaments Were Families North Going Being Where Much Team Teams Playing
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan. Barton Gellman
Intelligence Focus Ally Mainly Budget Adversaries Documents Equally Reveal Korea Iran Arsenal North Intense North Korea Billion Including Pakistan
The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus. Barton Gellman
CIA Virus France Some Russia Smallpox Korea Surprise Iraq North North Korea Nations Samples Specialists Now Four
I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s. Bellamy Young
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Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it. Ben Saunders
Life You Simple Matter Out Eaten Staying About Direction Stuff Concerned Returns None Becomes Very Normally North Escapism Getting Going Just Tax Tax Returns Moving Warm Certain Bill Gas
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