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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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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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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While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
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I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
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When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'
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She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.
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I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
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I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.
