Helio Castroneves (Hélio Castro-Neves) Quotes
To be honest, Brazilian people are fun people, and the country is amazing. It's full of beautiful people. I love the beaches.
Quotes to Explore
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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Music is my first love.
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I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.
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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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The one thing women love more than money is power.
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A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.
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I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.
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‘Oh Brancepeth,’ said the girl, her voice trembling, ‘why haven’t you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.’
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The list of what I want to do is so long, I would need a few lifetimes to achieve them. For instance, I would like to fly small planes, maybe over the Ganges one day.
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There are two things that give me perfect happiness - doing the perfect shot and travelling. I get stressed, really stressed by the fact that there is just so much to see and I am not going to live long enough to visit all the places I want to.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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To be honest, Brazilian people are fun people, and the country is amazing. It's full of beautiful people. I love the beaches.
