Paulo Coelho Quotes
I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
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I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
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I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?
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My career is media. One can turn on the TV or look at a magazine and see me.
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I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
