Jorge Amado Quotes
I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.Jorge Amado
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
Rain Phoenix -
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson -
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
Quentin Tarantino
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
Faith Hill -
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern -
You have to relish the challenge of television.
Laura Linney -
I am a just man.
Fidel Castro -
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
Ed Westwick -
I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
AJ McLean -
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson -
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson -
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
Ibrahim Rugova -
I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
Dawn Steel -
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
Kim Hunter -
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Italo Calvino -
It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
Bill James -
I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
Jorge Amado