Isabel Allende Quotes
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
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I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.
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As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.
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It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.
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More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
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Sometimes you might feel like you're not good enough or unique enough, but everyone is! Everyone has different personalities.
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Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us.... We are all proud that through God's powerful aid we have become once more true Germans.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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As for myself, I was trying to see if there was a way I could take meaning, which was at the same time vision, and not have the vision be an ornament to meaning. The vision had to be meaning, but it also still had to be vision.
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I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.
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To be honest, while every market is very different, we are all still fundamentally moved and inspired by similar human truths - love, fear, belonging, desire, and so on.
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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
