Paulo Coelho Quotes
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
Paulo Coelho
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
Wayne Dyer
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
Dale Murphy
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
Madeleine Albright
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
Utkarsh Ambudkar
The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
Damien Hirst
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap
There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
Orlando Brown
Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
Antonio Porchia
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames
The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
Ben Goldacre
My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
Linda McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
Paulo Coelho