Jose Mujica Quotes
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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I write music every day.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
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One of the things I'm fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.
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Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'
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People might not view me as competitive as I really am.
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We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
