Isabel Allende Quotes
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I started out doing musicals.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
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The biggest laugh has to come at the end .
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I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.
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Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
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I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
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I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
