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 cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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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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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.
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I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
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I don't generally follow sports. At an early age, I discovered that nature had apportioned me only a small reserve of enthusiasm. Best to ration.
Colson Whitehead -
We are just party people. We always had a drink in the evening with the music on and space to dance. It was that kind of a family.
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You also have to surround yourself with people who have the same dreams and values as you do.
