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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Sleeping on people's floors when you're 22 is fine. But when you get your life in order and have a family you want to keep and a certain level of health, touring bigger means you can keep going for longer.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I will continue to pave the way and share my health journey with the world until I find a cure and proper diagnostic testing for this silent killer called Lyme disease.
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I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
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Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
