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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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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With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
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I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
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Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
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I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
