Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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My health is fine.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
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I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.
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I'm not going to run for political office.
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Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.
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I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
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My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
