Umberto Eco Quotes
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I hate competition.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.
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When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
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I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.
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You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
