Allan Pineda Lindo (apl.de.ap) Quotes
You also have to surround yourself with people who have the same dreams and values as you do.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I'm not a sun person.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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You also have to surround yourself with people who have the same dreams and values as you do.
