Isabel Allende Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
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She said, 'Spell 'ant' ', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant' ', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!'
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The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'
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To be perfectly frank, I really do not.
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I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
