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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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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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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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.
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I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.
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When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.
