Machado de Assis Quotes
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.
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The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.
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As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
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There is no drama like the drama on the athletic field.
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At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
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Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
