Paulo Coelho Quotes

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

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• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
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• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• People have to evolve.

  

  Caprice Bourret
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• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
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• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

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• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

  

  Gary Locke
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• I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

  

  Nancy Garden
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• To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

  

  Dale Murphy
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• In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

  

  James Wolfensohn
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• We've seen the worst that men can do, pa, and been the worst that men can be. But that don't mean that someday we won't see the best, too. And if we can never be perfect after this, well, we can still be pretty good, can't we?

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

  

  Earl Nightingale
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• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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• Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

  

  Marion Cotillard
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• When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

  

  Paulo Coelho
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