Paulo Coelho Quotes
I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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People work hard.
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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Make today the BEST day of your life, because there is no good reason not to.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.
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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
