Paulo Coelho Quotes
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.
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You write these songs which are really dear to you about your family or friends, loved ones, and then you get this call, and they say, 'It's perfect for two vampires making out in the back of a car.' It's some random TV show, and so I say, 'Oh, yeah, perfect - that's what I meant it for.'
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The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins...
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When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
