Carlos J. Cortes Quotes
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
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My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'
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I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back. I've combed it the same way for years. Same thing, every time.
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We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.
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I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'
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My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.
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I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.
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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
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A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.
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Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.
