Paulo Coelho Quotes
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
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As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong.
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
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Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.
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Part 2, Ch. 5
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I'm not judging myself; I'm not dissing what I do. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I'm working on. I've accomplished something and I'm not going to be ashamed to be happy about what I've done.
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I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.
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History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
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I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
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I never say I am a guru.
