Camila Alves Quotes
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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My first vocation was dance.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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I always put my boxing first.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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It's a challenge getting rid of an accent by yourself. I have parents that have such thick accents. They are like, "She sounds fine." They didn't know. To them, I spoke perfect English because their accents were so heavy. I don't even want to know what I sounded like. I don't want to know!
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
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English is not my first language.
