Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda (Chico Buarque) Quotes
Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
Ian McShane
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne Dyer
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
Eddie Redmayne
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
Natascha McElhone
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
Marat Safin
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
Daniel Bryan
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
Nancy Kerrigan
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
Kate Beckinsale
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
Natalie du Toit
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Barbara Mikulski
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
J. K. Simmons
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
Rachel Kushner
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
Mahershala Ali
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
C. P. Scott
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
Patricia Highsmith
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No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
Deana Carter
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
Louis C. K.
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I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
Eloise Mumford
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Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda