Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'
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What I would really like to do is live in a university town and be an intellectual bum. I just want to write, read, whatever. I'm very eclectic. I read every night until my eyes burn.
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There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
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If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.
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Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
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Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.
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The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
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I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.
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Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
