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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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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.
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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.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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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.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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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.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.
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My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
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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.
