Joaquim Barbosa Quotes
I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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I am glad that our country is starting to have a serious conversation about how to repair our broken immigration system - it is long overdue.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.
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When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
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Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
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I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.
