Bernal Díaz del Castillo Quotes
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
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As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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… when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?
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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
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The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
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I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
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Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.
