Isabel Allende Quotes

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Isabel Allende

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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.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Dressed

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Years
  • Hero
  • Many

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Different
  • Moments
  • Look

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • May
  • American

• A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.

  

  Atticus Ross Nine Inch Nails
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Colin Mochrie

• It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

  

  Neymar

• 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).

  

  Matthew Sweet
  • Music

• Sometimes you might feel like you're not good enough or unique enough, but everyone is! Everyone has different personalities.

  

  Astrid S
  • Good
  • Different
  • Unique

• Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

  

  Chris Toumazou

• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Done

• We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

  

  Jerry Stiller
  • People
  • Together
  • Today

• Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

  

  John McAfee
  • Fear
  • Greed
  • Jealousy

• The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

  

  Joseph J. Ellis
  • Inevitable
  • Transform
  • Improbable

• Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

  

  Isabel Allende
  • Fear
  • Accept
  • Inevitable