Machado de Assis Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
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Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.
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Tears are not arguments.
