Arturo Pérez-Reverte Quotes
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.
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I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.
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Ultimately, I'm in the fitness industry. But, I've branched out from there quite a bit. I began doing consulting on writing and getting published in magazines in about 2011. Right around that time, I started doing some angel investing and looking to grow my skills and general experience outside of that.
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Any man who outgrows the myths of childhood is ninety-nine percent aware and convinced of his own mortality. But then comes the chilly breath on the nape of the neck, a stirring of the air by the wings of the bleak angel. When a man becomes one hundred percent certain of his inevitable death, he gets The Look.
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And with the morn those angel faces smileWhich I have loved long since and lost awhile.
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When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of time sitting on a wooden pew. Angels are sort of a relief. If you're looking around, the other imagery is so dark and heavy. Looking at the beautifully rendered pictures of angels was more uplifting.
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No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.
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My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.
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And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
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We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated them with paintings and drawings that bounced off of them. You want the picture to relate to the text without it slavishly regurgitating it or merely illustrating it, because that's redundant. You want to show another angle of what the text is saying.
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I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.
