Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda (Chico Buarque) Quotes
Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
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I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
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Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.
