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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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
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It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.
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Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.
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It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.
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All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.
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I never say I am a guru.
