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 want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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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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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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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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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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Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
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It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.
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I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.
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Sport is a great way to keep fit. It's a stress reliever.
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To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career.
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I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
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You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
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Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.
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One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
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Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
