Jose Bergamin Quotes
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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I know what poverty is.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
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I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.
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I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.
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Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
