Marta Vieira da Silva (Marta) Quotes
My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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If you can find a better car, buy it.
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
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What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
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When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.
