Camilo Jose Cela Quotes
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I know what poverty is.
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You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.
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The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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He lives well who is well hidden.
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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
