Paulo Coelho Quotes
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
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I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.
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We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
