Paulo Coelho Quotes
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
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Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
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I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
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That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a snare Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air As not a True-believer passing by But shall be overtaken unaware.
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I can't set my hopes too high 'Cause every 'Hello' ends with a 'Goodbye'.
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I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.
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Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
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Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
