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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I don't ever go into anything thinking I'm going to lose. I go into it thinking and believing I'm going to come out on top. I'm going to succeed.
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The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
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He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
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One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
