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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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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But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.
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The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
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Anywhere I roam, where I lay my head is home.
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The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.
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Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
