Paulo Coelho Quotes
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
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We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
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There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
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I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
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For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
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My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
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My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
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I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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A woman can be harassed and then go on to have a good working relationship with the man harassing her.
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Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.
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Music is about your feelings.
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
