Paulo Coelho Quotes
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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I've kind of always had this balance between genre and personal dramas. It almost feels like the two help each other. If I was just to make a genre film, maybe it would be hollow and soulless. If I was just to make a personal drama, maybe it would be melodramatic and nobody would ever go see it.
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
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Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.
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I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.
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Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
