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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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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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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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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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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Great 'D. Better shot. That's the only thing I can say about it. (He) made a heck of a shot. Got to take your hat off to that.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.
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I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
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I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process is sort of like when I go out for sushi and have to get a slice of pizza afterward.
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Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.
