Eva Longoria Quotes
When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
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I lived in Paris for two years with my family. I would roam the streets of Paris during the day for a few hours in the subway, on the streets, and I listened to the French language, and I got a sense of the rhythm and the melody of the language.
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With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
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When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.
