Allan Pineda Lindo (apl.de.ap) Quotes
My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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My generation were all careerists.
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'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.
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I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
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I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
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You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world.
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There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
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My being in America and being adopted from the Philippines have given me motivation and drive as an artist.
