Carlos Beltran Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
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I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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What I do like about Donald Trump is that he's not bought by the lobbyists. He put up his own money, funded his own campaign. That means he's nobody's puppet.
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Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem.
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
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I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.
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Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet.
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My goal is to keep him away from that and play the match on my terms so that I can be aggressive and not hesitate.
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I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.
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I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
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I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.
