Isabel Allende Quotes
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
